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GOOD AIR DAYS CARL SAFINA'S PORTRAIT OF A SEABIRD NAMED AMELIA, EYE OF THE ALBATROSS EXAMINES THE BIOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AND BATTLE TO SURVIVE OF THE MAGNIFICENT FLYER

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20020915
Author:Bill McKibben

Until very recently, Samuel Taylor Coleridge could have passed as a scientific authority on the albatross. We knew that they flew a long way, but beyond that the bird was basically an enigma.

No more. Working with field biologists who have begun strapping tiny global positioning units to the birds, Carl Safina has produced a truly magnificent biography of a single bird, Amelia, a Laysan albatross who nests on a small islet northwest of Hawaii. As it turns out, though, to call that islet her "home" would be a great exaggeration. As soon as her solitary chick is hatched, Amelia roams far and ...

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