Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Author’s Note xiii
4. PART I WHY WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT BIRDS
5. Prologue. Hemlock Lake, January 1976 3
6. 1 Nature’s Winged Warning System 11
7. 2 All Those Trees Out There: Of Humans, Habitat, and Birds 17
8. PART II THE RESCUERS
9. 3 The Bird That Owned the Sky: Tom Cade and the Peregrine Falcon 39
10. 4 The Great Peregrine Falcon Restoration Project 53
11. 5 The Last Pair of Eagles in New York: Hemlock Lake, 1976 75
12. 6 So Wild and Free: Bringing Bald Eagles Back to New York 101
13. PART III WHERE WILL THEY BE IN ONE HUNDRED YEARS?
14. 7 Toxic Summer: Loons, Lead, and Our Poisoned Lakes 125
15. 8 Our Winter Visitors: Short‑eared Owls and New York’s Endangered Grasslands 153
16. 9 The Most Beautiful Sound on the Mountain: The World of the Bicknell’s Thrush 173
17. PART IV A BRIEF AND DANGEROUS LIFE
18. 10 Windows, Windmills, and Lights: The Many Ways We Kill Birds 199
19. 11 A Billion Dead Birds a Year? The Controversy about Cats 219
20. PART V THE WORLD WE’VE MADE
21. 12 Comeback: The Astonishing Return of the Peregrine Falcon 239
22. 13 Up in the New York Skies: Bald Eagles Everywhere 259
23. Epilogue: Everything is Connected 275
24. The Rescuers: Where Are They Now? 291
25. Acknowledgments 301
26. Notes 307
27. References 327
28. Index 341