Through soaring images and essays from leading bird conservationists, Wings Over Water provides a stirring glimpse into one of the most vital and threatened of the world's ecosystems, the Prairie Pothole Region and the birds that nest and breed there. This beautiful coffee table book is the companion to the nationally distributed IMAX film of the same name. Wings Over Watercelebrates and promotes the preservation of the prairie wetlands and the birds that live and breed there through inspiring text from some the nation's foremost conservations of bird habitat and more than 300 stirring images. The Prairie Pothole Region is critical breeding and nesting habitat for the birds of North America — over 60 percent of America's ducks are hatched there, as well as hundreds of other shore and song birds. Wings Over Water immerses the reader into one of earth's most important ecosystems, following the breeding and migrations of sandhill cranes, mallards, and yellow warblers from their southern wintering grounds back to the prairie wetlands to nest and raise the next generation of the species. Wings Over Water is a joint venture with The National Audubon Society, the world's oldest non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitat, Ducks Unlimited, the world's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving North America's continually disappearing waterfowl habitats, and the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, which works to secure the future of hunting, fishing and land management through programs of science, education, demonstration and communication.
