Rebecca Heisman

How and why birds navigate the skies, travelling from continent to continent—flying thousands of miles across the earth each autumn and spring—has continually fascinated the human imagination. Only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys. How did this revolution come about? Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how an eccentric group of ornithologists, engineers, and...

For the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, travelling from continent to continent—flying thousands of miles across the earth each autumn and spring—has continually fascinated the human imagination. Only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys. Although we know much more...