Flight paths how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration

"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...

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Main Author: Heisman, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Edition: First edition.
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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"--
Physical Description: 267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780063161146
0063161141