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- catalog abstract ""The migration of birds has for centuries amazed and confounded onlookers. Those fortunate enough to have witnessed the skies filling with these intrepid travelers wonder, how do they find their way to their destination? How do they withstand the dangers and rigors of their long-distance flight? Gatherings of Angels offers firsthand accounts by leading experts in avian migration who convey not only the biology but also a sense of the beauty and excitement that attend this most extraordinary of natural spectacles."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11084199.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""The migration of birds has for centuries amazed and confounded onlookers. Those fortunate enough to have witnessed the skies filling with these intrepid travelers wonder, how do they find their way to their destination? How do they withstand the dangers and rigors of their long-distance flight? Gatherings of Angels offers firsthand accounts by leading experts in avian migration who convey not only the biology but also a sense of the beauty and excitement that attend this most extraordinary of natural spectacles."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Scope and evolution of bird migration / Kenneth P. Able -- How birds migrate : flight behavior, energetics, and navigation / Kenneth P. Able -- Neotropical migrants and the Gulf of Mexico : the view from aloft / Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr. -- Neotropical migrants and the Gulf of Mexico : the cheniers of Louisiana and stopover ecology / Frank R. Moore -- Returning to the tropics : the epic autumn flight of the blackpoll warbler / James Baird -- Racing with the sun : the forced migration of the broad-winged hawk / Keith L. Bildstein -- Sandhill cranes and the Platte River / Gary L. Krapu -- Hemispheric globetrotting of the white-rumped sandpiper / Brian A. Harrington -- Converging north : dunlins and western sandpipers on the Copper River Delta / Stanley E. Senner -- Hummingbirds in Rocky Mountain meadows / William A. Calder -- Conservation of birds on migration / Kenneth P. Able.".
- catalog extent "xi, 193 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Gatherings of angels.".
- catalog identifier "0801433622 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Gatherings of angels.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, NY : Comstock Books,".
- catalog relation "Gatherings of angels.".
- catalog subject "598.156/8 21".
- catalog subject "Birds Ecology.".
- catalog subject "Birds Migration.".
- catalog subject "QL698.9 .G38 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Scope and evolution of bird migration / Kenneth P. Able -- How birds migrate : flight behavior, energetics, and navigation / Kenneth P. Able -- Neotropical migrants and the Gulf of Mexico : the view from aloft / Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr. -- Neotropical migrants and the Gulf of Mexico : the cheniers of Louisiana and stopover ecology / Frank R. Moore -- Returning to the tropics : the epic autumn flight of the blackpoll warbler / James Baird -- Racing with the sun : the forced migration of the broad-winged hawk / Keith L. Bildstein -- Sandhill cranes and the Platte River / Gary L. Krapu -- Hemispheric globetrotting of the white-rumped sandpiper / Brian A. Harrington -- Converging north : dunlins and western sandpipers on the Copper River Delta / Stanley E. Senner -- Hummingbirds in Rocky Mountain meadows / William A. Calder -- Conservation of birds on migration / Kenneth P. Able.".
- catalog title "Gatherings of angels : migrating birds and their ecology / edited by Kenneth P. Able ; with contributions by Kenneth P. Able ... [et al.] ; maps drawn by Cindy Lippincott.".
- catalog type "text".