Flight Paths
How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
"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.
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.
Subjects:
Birds -- Migration -- Research.
Migratory birds -- Research.
Flyways -- Research.
Bird watching.
Birds -- Migration -- Research.
Migratory birds -- Research.
Flyways -- Research.
Bird watching.
ISBN:
9780063161146
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ANIMALS Bird Hei | Sandhills Indoors | New, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/17/2024) |
ANIMALS Bird Hei | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.