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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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The chapter titled “Chasing Angels,” for example, starts with naval officer Irven Buss using his naval ship’s radar to track birds off the coast of China in 1946. banding station, 2020. There are many strands that make up the scientific investigations into the question, “Where do the birds go?”

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The Siberian Rubythroat

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Rather, during autumn migration, it first flies to east Siberia, then turns south across eastern China, and finally turns west (source: Birds of Two Worlds: The Ecology and Evolution of Migration). Other fun things that researchers have done with Siberian Rubythroats include investigating their response to light of different wavelengths.

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