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100 1  Gehrman, Elizabeth 
245 10 Rare birds :|bthe extraordinary tale of the Bermuda petrel
       and the man who brought it back from extinction /
       |cElizabeth Gehrman. 
264  1 Boston :|bBeacon Press,|c[2012] 
264  4 |c©2012 
300    xi, 240 pages :|bmap ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  The bird man of Bermuda -- The spoyle and havock of the 
       cahowes -- Seeking the invisible -- Unraveling the 
       mysteries -- Building a new, old world -- A discouraging 
       decade -- Coming of age -- A habitat takes shape -- 
       Leaving the nest -- Loose ends and ill winds -- Moving on,
       coming home. 
520    "The inspiring story of David Wingate, a living legend 
       among birders, who brought the Bermuda petrel back from 
       presumed extinction David Wingate is known in Bermuda as 
       the birdman and in the international conservation 
       community as a living legend for single-handedly bringing 
       back the cahow, or Bermuda petrel--a seabird that flies up
       to 82,000 miles a year, drinking seawater and sleeping on 
       the wing. For millennia, the birds came ashore every 
       November to breed on this tiny North Atlantic island. But 
       less than a decade after Bermuda's 1612 settlement, the 
       cahows had vanished. Or so it was thought until the early 
       1900s, when tantalizing hints of their continued existence
       began to emerge. In 1951, two scientists invited fifteen-
       year-old Wingate along on a bare-bones expedition to find 
       the bird. The team stunned the world by locating seven 
       nesting pairs, and Wingate knew his life had changed 
       forever. He would spend the next fifty years battling 
       natural and man-made disasters, bureaucracy, and personal 
       tragedy with single-minded devotion and antiestablishment 
       outspokenness. In April 2009, Wingate saw his dream 
       fulfilled, as the birds returned to Nonsuch, an island 
       habitat that he had hand-restored, plant-by-plant, giving 
       the Bermuda petrels the chance they needed in their 
       centuries-long fight for survival"--Provided by publisher.
520    "Rare Birds is the story of how one man's obsession saved 
       a species. Bermudian David Wingate was born in 1935, the 
       same year a bird found dead at the foot of a lighthouse 
       was identified as a cahow, or Bermuda petrel, by stunned 
       scientists. Cahows, perhaps the most graceful and 
       acrobatic flyers of the avian world, had been thought 
       extinct for more than three centuries -- since shortly 
       after humans arrived on this remote 21-square-mile island 
       and ate them into oblivion. Despite the startling 
       discovery, the possibility of finding these elusive, 
       nocturnal birds alive was considered only slightly greater
       than that of lunching with Bigfoot. It wasn't until 1951 
       that American ornithologist Robert Cushman Murphy and 
       Bermudian naturalist Louis Mowbray took a chance and 
       mounted a bare-bones expedition to Castle Harbour, where 
       the birds had last been seen in the early 1600s. Wingate 
       went along for the ride, and when at length a cahow was 
       pulled from deep within a rocky cliffside, it changed his 
       life forever. "I had a calling," he says. "Bringing back 
       the cahow was what I was meant to do.""--Provided by 
       publisher. 
600 10 Wingate, David,|d1935- 
650  0 Bermuda petrel. 
650  0 Rare birds. 
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