Few people will visit outer space, travelling around Earth at 25 times the speed of sound, experiencing the emotional moment of seeing our world as a planet. Dr. Roberta Bondar’s view of Earth from space compelled her to re-visit her view of Earth from its surface. As the world’s first neuro-ophthalmologist in space, she creates and shares unique visual stories of the natural world. This allows us to see things from a new perspective – patterns and parallels that stimulate our adventurous and creative spirits. A common link between space and Earth is flight, and with little gravity in the free-fall of space, as an astronaut she could float from one surface to another – the closest human beings come to flying like a bird, unaided. Birds share our mortality and our imperative to survive as we see our own fragility in theirs. In her most recent book, Space for Birds, we meet two exemplary migratory species, the Western Hemisphere’s endangered Whooping Crane and the Eastern Hemisphere’s near threatened Lesser Flamingo, through three perspectives: from space, their extensive flight corridors; from the air, intriguing habitat relationships; and on Earth’s surface, intimate portraits of their species-specific behaviours.