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

By:

Heisman, Rebecca

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

9780063161146

Subject(s):

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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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Books		ATREE Library General Stacks	Non-fiction		598.156 HEI (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Checked out		24.08.2026	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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