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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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Flight Paths gives us another opportunity to get to know Cochran, and Heisman’s visit to his Illinois house in 2021 (during the Pandemic, so everyone was masked) gives us a final, cheery portrait of a man who embraced birds and adventure. As Heiman points out herself, there are many migratory species we still know very little about.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. “We have the ability to fix it, but we still need the collective will” (p. It’s not a bad idea.

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Vote Now for Awesome Ornithology Projects!

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We’re always interested in what he’s up to and pleased that his research and our collective interest in cool birds can come together in such an opportune manner. Maria and I, first-year graduate students in Zac Cheviron’s lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-. To win, we need your votes! Thanks for your support!

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