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385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch has exploded. What we've learned of these key migrations - how billions of birds circumnavigate the globe, flying tens of thousands of miles between hemispheres...
2) Warbler wave
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 x 29 cm
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English
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"A photographic exploration of warbler behavior and migration"-- Provided by publisher.
"Discover the magic -- and the science -- behind the migration of warblers with this stunning photographic picture book from the award-winning author and photographer of Raindrops Roll, Best in Snow, and Full of Fall. The migrating warblers have arrived, to feed and preen, to refuel and rest before continuing on their amazing journey of thousands of miles. This...
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267 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration -- from where and when they take off to their flightpaths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there"-- Provided by publisher.
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x, 274 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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This book explains for the first time how Americans and Europeans have only recently come to realize that their summer visitors have a special identity: they are birds of two worlds, the tropics as well as the temperate zone, and thus doubly vulnerable to environmental degradation. Author Michael McCarthy pursues these captivating creatures in their natural habitats, bringing them to life for the reader and showing what would be lost by their disappearance.--[book...
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
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English
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Sammy, a young Wilson's warbler, wakes up one frosty August morning near the Arctic Circle, he instinctively knows that it's time to make his first migratory journey south to Panama. But there's one problem -- where's Panama?
When a young Wilson's warbler named Sammy wakes up one morning, ready to start his first migratory journey to Panama, he finds that the other warblers have already left, so he looks for help from other animals, who each have...
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47 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm
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English
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"Animals of all shapes and sizes make epic journeys across our planet, through harsh weather, avoiding hungry predators, in their efforts to survive. Travel around the globe with some of the world's most incredible animals and discover their unique migration stories"--Provided by publisher.
Every year, millions of animals of all shapes and sizes make epic journeys across our planet. Animals migrate because their environment changes. They travel to...
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viii, 293 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards our health. Now, the rufa red knot, newly listed as threatened...
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