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Description of  I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird: A Daughter's Memoir (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)

Susan Ceruleans memoir trains a naturalists eye and a daughters heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activists lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. Read more