Kuaka

Don Stap's writing is unique for a science article. Instead of just an article filled with facts and statistics and what it all means he instead tells a story. He writes in first person and makes you believe that you are right there looking at the birds. In one of the parts he is saying how the codirector of the Wetlands Division at California's PRBO Conservation Science, Nils Warnock, is holding too many Godwits while trying to bring them to dry land that he was given a bird. Stap says, "Here, he says, handing me a warm bundle with long, kicking legs. “Don’t hold him too tightly.” I cradle the bird against my body and stumble through the darkness, the godwit’s heart beating like a trapped moth against my chest." When he describes the bird aginst his chest he makes you feel like you are holding the bird. His writing is very personal and in a way you are studying these birds with him instead of studying what he wrote about them. 
In Don Staps essay as he describes the birds and the scene he is also giving you facts about the birds and the birds history. Stap explains puts you in a scene with the scientists and then gives you the facts of their findings. For example, "At the side of the van, Lee Tibbitts, one of the USGS Alaska crew, holds each godwit up into the light from Riegen’s headlamp so he can measure the bird’s bill with calipers. Female bar-tails are larger than males, and bill length is an easy way to distinguish the sexes." Stap uses his descriptive language to paint the scene for us then tells us what we are looking at and for. After reading Don STap's article you feel like you just watched a documentary film about Kuakas on National Geographic.