×
Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date.
For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now.

Choose Expedited Shipping at checkout for delivery by Tuesday, April 27
25.0
In Stock
Overview
Shortlisted for the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia.
At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast combines the natural and human histories of Pacific Northwest marine birds with Caroline Fox’s personal story of her life as a conservation scientist. Accompanied by vivid images, drawings and both archival and modern photography, the narrative follows the author as she sails the coast, documenting marine bird diversity and seasonal shifts in community assemblages.
This unique story captures the natural splendor and rich variety of marine birds feeding, breeding and undertaking spectacular, often trans-equatorial migrations along the Northwest Coast. Introducing some of the most fascinating yet poorly understood species, including albatrosses, puffins and cranes, this compelling read calls attention to the urgent conservation challenges faced by marine birds and their ecosystems, as well as their historically complex relationship with human society.
At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast combines the natural and human histories of Pacific Northwest marine birds with Caroline Fox’s personal story of her life as a conservation scientist. Accompanied by vivid images, drawings and both archival and modern photography, the narrative follows the author as she sails the coast, documenting marine bird diversity and seasonal shifts in community assemblages.
This unique story captures the natural splendor and rich variety of marine birds feeding, breeding and undertaking spectacular, often trans-equatorial migrations along the Northwest Coast. Introducing some of the most fascinating yet poorly understood species, including albatrosses, puffins and cranes, this compelling read calls attention to the urgent conservation challenges faced by marine birds and their ecosystems, as well as their historically complex relationship with human society.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781771601627 |
---|---|
Publisher: | Heritage Group Distribution |
Publication date: | 07/05/2016 |
Pages: | 304 |
Sales rank: | 821,038 |
Product dimensions: | 5.80(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Dr. Caroline Fox is a conservation scientist and postdoctoral fellow with Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. Her research interests revolve around marineterrestrial interactions, marine predator ecology and the study of human impacts on marine ecosystems. As a big-picture ecologist, the author does research that spans a diversity of coastal ecosystems and taxa, including kelp forests, seabirds and black bears. She teaches marine ecology and conservation at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, provides outreach and communications for Raincoast Conservation Foundation and spends time exploring the wild British Columbian coast. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
Customer Reviews
Related Searches
Explore More Items
It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for ...
It is 1946, and war-weary young ex-intelligence officer Lane Winslow leaves London to look for
a fresh start. When she finds herself happily settled in King's Cove, a sleepy hamlet nestled in the idyllic interior of British Columbia surrounded by ...
Lane Winslow is enjoying a perfect, sunny day at the lake when she spots a ...
Lane Winslow is enjoying a perfect, sunny day at the lake when she spots a
gravely injured young man drifting in a sinking rowboat. Hypothermic, bleeding, and soaked in icy, bloody water, he is unable to speak, leaving Lane at ...
Moving, entertaining, and witty, A Thousand Consolations is a literary romantic comedy for fans of ...
Moving, entertaining, and witty, A Thousand Consolations is a literary romantic comedy for fans of
David Nicholls’s Us and Emma Straub’s Modern Lovers. Paula doesn’t put much faith in the candles she designs for her customers, which promise to cure ...
In 1886, Vancouver Island’s E&N rail service was established to carry coal to smelters and ...
In 1886, Vancouver Island’s E&N rail service was established to carry coal to smelters and
ships, and the towns in the railway’s path prospered as the tracks expanded and passenger travel flourished.Along the E&N celebrates the historic and still-surviving hotels ...
More than 100 wildly delicious recipes that use North America's original red meat, from bison ...
More than 100 wildly delicious recipes that use North America's original red meat, from bison
rancher and award-winning food writer Jennifer Bain.Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison is the first comprehensive contemporary bison cookbook for a general North American market. With more ...
Through the pages of Casting Back Peter McMullan takes the reader from his youthful Irish ...
Through the pages of Casting Back Peter McMullan takes the reader from his youthful Irish
beginnings in the 1940s to his time as a young journalist in Northern Ireland during the mid-1950s, through the 1960s and into today’s western Canada ...
Featuring over 35 adventures on 13 different islands, each route includes a map and detailed ...
Featuring over 35 adventures on 13 different islands, each route includes a map and detailed
information on local history, topography, aesthetics, places of interest, type of road, general route condition, level of difficulty, start and end points, checkpoints along the ...
In the early 1980s, Vancouver residents were still reeling from the sensational arrest of child ...
In the early 1980s, Vancouver residents were still reeling from the sensational arrest of child
murderer Clifford Olson when a new terror surfaced in the headlines: a serial rapist was attacking women across the city. In May 1982, with a ...