The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, streamering out.” This poem, “Shore Birds,” was included in ...

Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia: A Photographic Guide Richard Chandler. Princeton University Press, $35 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-691-14281-4 ...