Flight paths : how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration /
Rebecca Heisman.
- First edition.
- New York: HarperCollins 2023.
- 267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ;
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.
"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."--