Flight Paths: Rebecca Heisman

How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration |

Paperback edition

The epic scientific story of how we know what we know about bird migration. “Illuminating. . . . Flight Paths does what only the best science books do: It adds to our knowledge of the world without diminishing its wonder.”—Wall Street Journal

Only recently have we begun to fully understand where birds go when they disappear south over the horizon, flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and spring. And although we now know much more about these amazing journeys than ever before, the process of how scientists revealed these epic voyages is a miracle in and of itself.