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Flight paths : how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration / Rebecca Heisman.
Van Pelt Library QL698.9 .H445 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heisman, Rebecca, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birds--Migration--Research.
- Birds.
- Migratory birds--Research.
- Migratory birds.
- Flyways--Research.
- Flyways.
- Bird watching.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- 267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- How a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0063161141
- 9780063161146
- OCLC:
- 1330406281
- Publisher Number:
- 99993493605
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