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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
This research report used a pilot project to examine the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) and how Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) transportation improvement projects may result in noise and vibration levels that could affect migratory birds. The pilot project examined the vibration and noise levels that occurred as a result of standard maintenance activities.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"An exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration. In the past two decades, our understanding of bird migration-the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans or fly above the highest mountains, to go weeks without sleep, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch-has exploded. Scientists have made astounding discoveries: certain species, such as thrushes, can avoid dehydration...
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Pub. Date
[2023].
Description
"Flight Paths is the never-before-told story of how a group of migration-obsessed scientists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries engaged nearly every branch of science to understand bird migration— from where and when they take off to their flightpaths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there." --
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
An educational picture book in which lyrical text and impressionistic-style illustrations follow the life cycles of twelve migrating birds, representing the species who use the Mississippi flyway route. Back matter includes additional facts about flyways, migration, and each of the featured birds.
In this lyrical STEM gem, follow 12 bird species as their babies begin their first migration down the majestic flyway.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the waters edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they will have completed a near-miraculous 9,000-mile journey that began in Tierra del Fuego. Deborah Cramer followed these knots, whose numbers have declined by 75 percent, on their extraordinary odyssey from...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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Description
"When the seasons change and it’s time for a flock of sparrows to move on, a map made of stars guides their way. But when they reach the city, light pollution masks the map and confuses the birds. One sparrow becomes separated from the flock. A girl rescues the lost sparrow and decides to take action so this doesn’t happen again. She rallies a group of friends, and together they encourage people all over the city to help the sparrows by turning...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A story of wonder and hope, with poetic language and lush oil paintings. Children will cheer on the tiny but mighty yellow warbler as she makes her perilous migration journey from the tropics of Central America to the Canadian tundra. The warbler is helped along the way by three different children and families: a Nicaraguan family whose traditional shade coffee farm sustains migrant birds, an African-American family that creates a garden in their...