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B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It''s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.

He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown the distance to the moonand halfway back!

B95 is a robin-sized shorebird, a red knot of the subspecies rufa. Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey.

B95 can fly for days without eating or sleeping, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at ancient refueling stations along his migratory circuitchanges caused mostly by human ac

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
      Published 17 July 2012
      ISBN-13 9780374304683
      978-0374304683
      ISBN-10 0374304688
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      Children’s / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It''s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.

      He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown the distance to the moonand halfway back!

      B95 is a robin-sized shorebird, a red knot of the subspecies rufa. Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey.

      B95 can fly for days without eating or sleeping, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at ancient refueling stations along his migratory circuitchanges caused mostly by human ac

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