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How and why birds navigate the skies, travelling from continent to continent flying thousands of miles across the earth each autumn and spring has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys.

How did this revolution come about? Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how an eccentric group of ornithologists, engineers and other pioneering scientists have harnessed nearly every technological development of the last hundred years to understand bird migration in detail - from where and when they take off, their flight paths and behaviours, their destinations and the challenges they face getting there.

In this fascinating and compelling story Rebecca Heisman uncovers the secret history of an ornithological arms race that not only helped solve the mystery of bird migration using radar, radioactive isotopes, satellites and the humble aluminium band but has also given us much need

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    Publisher: Swift Press
    Publication Date: 3/7/2024
    ISBN13: 9781800752948, 978-1800752948
    ISBN10: 1800752946

    Non Fiction , Natural History

    Description

    How and why birds navigate the skies, travelling from continent to continent flying thousands of miles across the earth each autumn and spring has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys.

    How did this revolution come about? Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how an eccentric group of ornithologists, engineers and other pioneering scientists have harnessed nearly every technological development of the last hundred years to understand bird migration in detail - from where and when they take off, their flight paths and behaviours, their destinations and the challenges they face getting there.

    In this fascinating and compelling story Rebecca Heisman uncovers the secret history of an ornithological arms race that not only helped solve the mystery of bird migration using radar, radioactive isotopes, satellites and the humble aluminium band but has also given us much need

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