A beautiful, photo-rich companion book to the internationally distributed IMAX film of the same name, Wings Over Water celebrates the prairie wetlands of North America and the birds that live and breed in this critical habitat.

Covering 300,000 square miles stretching from Canada through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa, the prairie wetlands are one of Earth's most important, yet little-known, ecosystems. More than half of all North American migratory waterfowl and 96 species of songbirds breed and nest there, and more than 60 percent of the continent's ducks are hatched there. Wings Over Water immerses readers in this awe-inspiring, essential region, using more than 300 breathtaking photos and inspiring essays from some of North America's foremost conservationists to shine a spotlight on these critical breeding grounds and the need to protect them.

Wings Over Water is a joint venture of the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, which works to secure the future of hunting, fishing, and land management; Ducks Unlimited Inc., Wetlands America Trust, and Ducks Unlimited Canada, the world's largest nonprofit organizations dedicated to conserving North America's disappearing wetland and waterfowl habitats; and the National Audubon Society, the world's oldest nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to bird conservation.

Chris Dorsey is a renowned sportsman and host of Great American Country's series Ultimate Sportsman's Lodge Colorado. Chris is the president and founding partner of Orion Multimedia, the world's largest producer of outdoor adventure television programming.

Through soaring images and essays from leading bird conservationists, Wings Over Water provides a stirring glimpse into one of the most vital and threatened of the world's ecosystems, the Prairie Pothole Region and the birds that nest and breed there.

This beautiful coffee table book is the companion to the nationally distributed IMAX film of the same name. Wings Over Watercelebrates and promotes the preservation of the prairie wetlands and the birds that live and breed there through inspiring text from some the nation's foremost conservations of bird habitat and more than 300 stirring images. The Prairie Pothole Region is critical breeding and nesting habitat for the birds of North America - over 60 percent of America's ducks are hatched there, as well as hundreds of other shore and song birds. Wings Over Water immerses the reader into one of earth's most important ecosystems, following the breeding and migrations of sandhill cranes, mallards, and yellow warblers from their southern wintering grounds back to the prairie wetlands to nest and raise the next generation of the species.