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Migration mysteries : adventures, disasters, and epiphanies in a life with birds /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rappole, John H. (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2024]
Edition:First edition.
Series:W.L. Moody Jr. natural history series ; no. 42.
Subjects:
Rappole, John H.
Ornithologists > United States > Biography.
Birds > Migration.
Ornithology > Fieldwork.
Ornithologues > États-Unis > Biographies.
Oiseaux > Migration.
Ornithologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Birds > Migration
Ornithologists
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Return from the Wars
  • Backstory
  • Initiation
  • The Great Adventure Begins
  • Preparations, Departure, and Early Texas Epiphanies
  • Playa Escondida
  • Spring and Early Summer 1974
  • On the Road to Damascus in the North Woods
  • Fall 1974 in Texas
  • Game Change
  • The Rosetta Stone
  • A Working Hypothesis
  • Hiatus
  • Mrs. Fisk
  • Scrabbling on the Shoulders of Giants
  • Kingsville
  • The La Peninsula Gambit
  • The Santa Marta Expedition
  • Mistakes Were Made
  • Wood Thrush Lives
  • Tepēyōllōtl Stirs
  • Parsing the "Wanderer" Enigma
  • Rocket Science
  • Working the War Zone in Belize
  • The Shuar
  • Kiss My Golden Cheeks
  • Shazam!
  • Newton, Apples, and the New Paradigm
  • Epilogue.