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

by Heisman, Rebecca.

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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.

070.449598 H473f

Ornithology -- History.

Ornithologists -- United States.

Tracking and trailing -- Technological innovations -- History.

Birds -- Migration.

Migratory birds.

9780063161146 (hc.)

267 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Rebecca Heisman is a science writer based in eastern Washington who loves nerding out about birds. She’s contributed to publications including Audubon, Sierra, Hakai Magazine, bioGraphic, Living Bird (the magazine of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology), and Bird Conservation (the magazine of the American Bird Conservancy), and has worked for the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the world’s largest professional organization for bird scientists.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Flight Paths is little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology they developed to uncover the secrets of avian migration. For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent -- flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and spring -- has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys. Although we know much more than ever before, even the most enthusiastic birdwatcher may not know how we got here, the ways that the full breadth of scientific disciplines have come together to reveal these annual avian travels."--From publisher.

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