The Natural History of Cape Clear 1959 – 2019, reviewed

Review of The Natural History of Cape Clear 1959 – 2019, by Steve Wing, available to buy here, some of the proceeds will go towards helping to generate funds for the Cape Clear Bird Observatory lost by the impact of coivd-19.

It has been a while since the last book about Cape Clear, either by local author Chuck Kruger, or one about birds, bird watching, and the local flora and fauna. For author Steve Wing, following a great tradition of bird-related surnames for the island’s wardens, this book has been a while in the making.

While a birder through and through this book does have a lot for the wider, more general reader too. There are chapters on; the history and place names of the island, the sea life, land mammals, Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, etc), and plants too. This ensures that the reader comes away wiser and better informed about the wider ecosystem of the island and its inhabitants, both permanent and migratory.

If you do want to take a deep dive into bird-related data, then the middle third of the book is completely for you, but the preceding and following sections ensure that there is enough other subject matter to argue that this book is not solely for the bird watchers in your family.

The book is currently being rush released to ensure it is available for Christmas and it would make a good stocking filler, with a lot of great illustrations to ensure you have a good visual sense of what Wing is describing.

He also reflects on the challenges facing the island as its indigenous human population has fallen, and the consequent impact on the school which has come close to closing as the previous steady supply of children from local parents has dried up. As with the ever adaptive and innovative wildlife that the book describes, so too will the humans need to be creative if the age of local population is not going to solely rise upwards.

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