David Gessner, author of that lovely paean to peregrination, Soaring with Fidel, shares some further thoughts on migration on the Beacon Broadside blog. As he says, “Everyone wants to get there and be there but even the most superficial survey of the animal world will tell you that there’s no there there.”
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