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Title Flight paths : how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration / Rebecca Heisman.
Author Heisman, Rebecca, author.
Publisher New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Description 267 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) photographs ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.
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LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 LW-Hillside  598.1568 HEI Nearby on shelf  30641006555689 06-21-23  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Where do birds go? -- A bird in the hand -- Looking and listening -- Chasing angels -- Follow the 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 Birds -- Migration -- Research.
Migratory birds.
Flyways -- Research.
Bird watching.
Genre Informational works.
Other title How a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration
ISBN 9780063161146