This comprehensive book offers a fascinating review of birds that have evolved in a variety of ways to live “where the sea meets the land.” Selecting 72 birds common to Florida and the Caribbean, Dr. David Nellis describes their nesting, feeding, roosting and migration habits, conservation issues, suggested reading and more. Illustrated with more than 250 color photographs, mostly by the author.

By David W. Nellis
Paperback; 314 pages