Flight paths
how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration
Book - 2023
"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."--
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 300 | |a 267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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