Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands

<p>Every year more than twenty species of terns gulls and colonial wading birds raise their young on rookery islands all along the Gulf Coast. Their breeding and nesting activities go on in the wake of passing oil tankers commercial fishing vessels and pleasure boats of all kinds-human traffic that threatens their already circumscribed habitats.</p> <p>John C. Dyes has spent more than ten years photographing and observing the birds in their rookeries on the Texas Coast and in <i>Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands</i> he presents a year in the birds' life through fine photographs and an evocative and informative text. In a month-by-month account he follows the annual rituals and daily dramas of courtship mating and chick rearing among herons egrets spoonbills cormorants ibises and other birds that migrate and gather in colonies ranging from half a dozen birds to tens of thousands.</p>