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Author:

Heisman, Rebecca, author.

Title:

Flight paths : how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration / Rebecca Heisman.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Where do the birds go? -- A bird in the hand -- Looking and listening -- Chasing angels -- Follow that beep -- Higher, further, faster -- Navigating by the sun -- You are where you eat -- The feather library -- Vox populi -- Conclusion: Sky full of hope.

Summary:

"Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration -- from where and when they take off to their flightpaths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0063161141
9780063161146

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1330406281

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