Flight paths : how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration / Rebecca Heisman
- Author
- Heisman, Rebecca
- Additional Titles
- How a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration
- Published
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First edition.
- Physical Description
- 267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- 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."--
- Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 0063161141 (hardcover)
9780063161146 (hardcover) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-253) and index.
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