A tropical fishes collecting trip for an aquarium, we travel not to the tropics, but on Long Island, (how could this be in a winter-cold temperate region?) and the icing on this reading is a trip to Palau and the vibrant fishes and reefs there, (and why they do so...

We will be standing on the sand at the far eastern point of Long Island, Lazy Point, watching with Carl Safina for the birds coming on the wind from the north, heading  south and stopping to feed up on insects and fish , which are in abundance. ...