The Seabird's Cry by Adam Nicolson

Author:Adam Nicolson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

The birds caused no little wonder and merriment to the people in the adjoining rooms, who could not understand the origin of the mewing and cackling sounds which came from my room in the late evening. The next day the birds remained in the carton, each in its own compartment, and in the evening I enplaned for America with the birds under my seat. Only one survived the journey.

Safely through customs at Logan airport in Boston, a TWA truck took the clarinettist and his one remaining shearwater, ringed AX6587, to the easternmost point of the perimeter on the edge of Boston Harbor. The TWA man helped Mazzeo get the shearwater from its box and no sooner was it out than AX6587 flew across the water, heading east. It was 8.15 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 3 June 1952.

Geoffrey Matthews, later to be the man who saved hundreds of millions of acres of the world’s wetlands and their birds by setting up the Ramsar Convention, was waiting on Skokholm for news. Every night, he checked the burrows. At 1.30 in the morning of 16 June, as he later wrote to Mazzeo, he was:

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