Flight paths : how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration / Rebecca Heisman.

By:

Heisman, Rebecca

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: HarperCollins 2023.Edition: First editionDescription: 267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color mapISBN:

9780063161146

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DDC classification:

598.156 HEI

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."--

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	ATREE Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	598.156 HEI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		5828

"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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