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Long Hops - Making Sense of Bird Migration (Paperback)
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Long Hops - Making Sense of Bird Migration (Paperback)
Series: Latitude 20 book
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Discovery Miles 5 650
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Long Hops explains the science of bird migration in accessible
language-from the aeronautics of bird flight to the newly unraveled
mysteries of their magnetic compasses. The author provides a
sideways look, from the perspective of an experienced physicist, at
the amazing long-distance migration journeys of many bird species.
Birds are breathtaking works of engineering as well as beautiful
creatures possessed of spectacular capabilities. Consider what it
takes for a bird to navigate from Alaska to Hawai'i, as thousands
of birds do every fall.They fly 2,500 miles nonstop and land on a
small island in the middle of a vast ocean. How do they endure such
marathon journeys, and how on earth do they know which direction to
travel over featureless ocean? These migrants head straight for
their island of choice from the get-go (they don't just fly south
and hope to bump into an island chain). Now consider this: many of
the migration journeys described in this book, in all parts of the
world and performed by birds as small as warblers and as large as
swans, cover much longer distances. The mysteries of migration are
being revealed to us via recent research aided by technology-this
book makes an important contribution to explaining these
developments, with original observations and transparent
explanations of one of nature's most fascinating phenomena.
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