Mark Cocker

Bird migration is no longer a mystery — but it will always seem a miracle

Scott Weidensaul describes some extraordinary feats of endurance, including the tiny hummingbird’s 800km flight across the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico

An Arctic tern in the Shetlands, ranging from Pole to Pole in a life of almost perpetual daylight. Credit: Getty Images 
issue 13 March 2021
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  • A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

    Scott Weidensaul

    Picador, pp. 400, £20

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