Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists

摘要

Every fall, thousands of people all over the world gather at strategic points along ridgelines and other high prospects to watch one of the great spectacles of the natural world: the migration of hundreds and thousands of raptors. Rising on air currents in great flocks and kettles, Broad-wing and Sharp-shinned hawks congregate in vast numbers and sweep overhead to the south. Other hawks, eagles, falcons, ospreys, and kites join the seasonal procession in one of the most spectacular phenomena of the avian world.