Tracking Desire looks at the natural history and biology of Elanoides forficatus, the swallow-tailed kite. Once at home throughout much of the eastern United States, the swallow-tailed kite is now seldom seen.
Susan Cerulean is the director of the Red Hills Writers Project in Tallahassee, Florida, and coeditor of Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf. She is also the author of Florida Wildlife Viewing Guide, editor of The Book of the Everglades, and coeditor of Guide to the Great Florida Birding Trail: East Section and The Wild Heart of Florida.