Inquiry: Golden Wings and Hairy Toes - Todd McLeish

Golden Wings and Hairy Toes by natural history writer and Rhode Island native TODD McLEISH is one of the most enjoyable and informative books on New England wildlife published in some time. McLeish came up with a short list of some of New England’s most endangered birds, mammals, reptiles, invertebrates and plants, and then arranged to spend some time in the field with the biologists and conservationists trying desperately to preserve the remaining populations of these plants and animals. Tune in and find out about the rare Sandplain Gerardia that seems to survive only in old New England cemeteries, and the American Burying Beetle, who finds a fresh corpse to inter for it’s young