THE EASTERN CURLEW

THE EASTERN CURLEW is a delightful and vivid portrait of a fascinating natural phenomenon.

Every year around August, millions of shorebirds from over thirty different species leave their breeding grounds in the Arctic, fly through East Asia,
and arrive on the coast of Australia. In April they fly back again, following
invisible flyways in the sky that has existed since long before humans
began trudging across the earth. By focusing on the extraordinary Eastern
Curlew, the largest of the migratory shorebirds, Harry Saddler zooms in on
one of the most spectacular mass migrations in the animal kingdom- and
how that migration has affected people, and how people are affecting it.

Following the Eastern Curlew along its migratory path, award-winning
nature writer Saddler explores how these birds have impressed themselves on the cultures of the countries they fly though, how human development has
impacted the birds, and how we're all entwined.