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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

A fascinating exception to this, of course, are penguins. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026 Another question has to do with the nature of flight in relation to migration. Lots of birds do not fly at all, or don’t fly very much. Most of them don’t migrate.

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