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Flight paths : how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration
Title:
Flight paths : how a passionate and quirky group of pioneering scientists solved the mystery of bird migration
Author:
Heisman, Rebecca, author.
ISBN:
9780063161146
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
267 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.