Their Fate Is Our Fate
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Their Fate Is Our Fate

How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World

  1. 257 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Their Fate Is Our Fate

How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World

About this book

At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world—from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef—Doherty illuminates birds' role as an early warning system for threats to the health of our planet and our own well-being.Their Fate Is Our Fate is an impassioned call not only to attention but to action. As "citizen scientists" we can collect data, vital to cutting-edge research, that depends on the birds that are all around us. Armed with our observations, scientists will continue to uncover new ways to glimpse our future in birds—and to affirm how, truly, their fate is our fate.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Peter Doherty
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. 1. Searching for puffins: An introduction
  7. 2. Distant relatives
  8. 3. Chick embryos and other developing life forms
  9. 4. Sentinel chickens
  10. 5. Falling crows
  11. 6. Ticks, sheep, grouse and the glorious twelfth
  12. 7. Flu flies
  13. 8. Bird flu: From Hong Kong to Qinghai Lake and beyond
  14. 9. Bird flu guys
  15. 10. Bug detectives
  16. 11. Hawaiian wipeout
  17. 12. The great parrot panic of 1929–30
  18. 13. Catching cancer
  19. 14. Blue bloods and chicken bugs
  20. 15. Killing the vultures
  21. 16. Heavy metal
  22. 17. Red knots and crab eggs
  23. 18. Hot birds
  24. 19. For the birds, and for us
  25. Notes
  26. Latin binomials for common bird names
  27. Abbreviations
  28. Further reading and references
  29. Acknowledgements
  30. Index
  31. Photo credits
  32. About the author