“…holding B95 in my hands several times is among the biggest thrills of my life.” –-Biologist Patricia Gonzalez It is only fitting that Biologist Patricia Gonzalez, head of the wetlands program, Fundacion Inalafquen, would be the one to spot B95 last May 28. She is perhaps the person who knows him best. She was part of the banding… Read more »
“…I wanted to write about extinction, it’s folly to knowingly let a life form go. Every life form is a success story. Every life form holds and carries all these wise decisions within it. The point is not to let them go, but to learn from them and admire them and to keep them going… Read more »
The Portland Public Library Presents… MOONBIRD A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Thursday, 9/27/12 6:00 PM Portland Public Library, Main Branch Monument Square Portland, Maine (207) 871-1700 x723 Free Admission Join National Book Award–winning author Phillip Hoose for a lecture on his new book, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the… Read more »
Author Phillip Hoose has been hitting the airwaves as B95 catches some air of his own (somewhere in the Arctic). LISTEN to Phillip Hoose Read and Discuss Moonbird at TeachingBooks.net LISTEN to Phillip Hoose Interviewed about Moonbird on Public Radio
A wonderful crowd of readers, birders, and conservationists including Portland, Maine major Michael Brennan, staff of the Nature Conservancy, and Charles Duncan of Manomet launched Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 at Longfellow Books. Author Phillip Hoose gave a compelling review of the life of B95, the forces that work against B95, and… Read more »
Mongabay is “one of the world’s most popular environmental science and conservation news sites”, with more than 1 million unique viewers each month. They have recently published an article on B95 and the Rufa Red Knot, in which Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 was mentioned! “The birds have brought… Read more »
Phillip Hoose was recently interviewed by Abby of “The Lupine Librarian” about Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, and the difficulties that can arise when writing non-fiction. “The Lupine Librarian” is a blog that focuses on book reviews, write ups about library programs and thoughts on library life and the… Read more »
The Delaware Bay Blues was written May 22, 2011 in a rented beach house in Reeds Beach, New Jersey. 25 or so biologists and volunteers, myself among them, had spent the entire afternoon trapping, measuring, banding and releasing hundreds of shorebirds. We were happily exhausted that evening. Wine appeared, and so did a guitar. We… Read more »
B95, the subject of Phillip Hoose’s Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, not only appeared on a NJ beach this week, but also on the New York Times‘ Green: A Blog About Energy and the Environment in the article “A Red-Knot Celebrity is Back in Town.”: “On Monday morning, Patricia… Read more »