This beautiful 344 page volume (published by W.W. Norton & Co) is part visual encyclopedia, part memoir of a nearly half century pursuit of birds in which Mr. Cross traveled 16 times zones from New York to Siberia. One chapter, The Miracle of Delaware Bay, tells the story of the natural phenomena of the horseshoe crab and the shorebirds that migrate here to our beaches in Cape May County every spring.

A New York Times article from 2009 reviewing the book is included.