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

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"Cast as the author's "swan song" on the topic of bird migration, this lively account of the life's work of distinguished ornithologist John H. Rappole will delight birders, researchers, and general readers alike. The developer and chief proponent of the "dispersal theo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rappole, John H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2024]
Edition:First edition.
Series:W.L. Moody Jr. natural history series.
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
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
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.