How Birds Migrate
eBook - ePub

How Birds Migrate

  1. 230 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

How Birds Migrate

About this book

Information on migratory flight patterns, flight speed and distance, travel seasons, calls of migrating birds, and more.

Information

Publisher
Stackpole Books
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780811744461
Edition
2

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. ONE The Reason Birds Migrate
  7. TWO How Scientists Study Migration
  8. THREE The Basics of Bird Flight
  9. FOUR Up in the Air
  10. FIVE The Travel Seasons
  11. SIX By Day or by Night?
  12. SEVEN Barriers to Migration
  13. EIGHT Migratory Rest Stops
  14. NINE Flight Speed and Distance
  15. TEN Finding the Way
  16. ELEVEN How High Birds Fly
  17. TWELVE Flocking Behavior during Migration
  18. THIRTEEN The Calls of Migrating Birds
  19. FOURTEEN Flight Strategies
  20. FIFTEEN Conservation of Migrating Birds
  21. Recommended Resources
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover
  24. Discover More

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