Project Ultraswan

Name: Project Ultraswan
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ISBN: 9780618145287

ISBN-10: 0618145281

ISBN-13: 9780618145287

Edition: 2002 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Elinor Osborn, Elinor Osborn

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It has been nearly 200 years since hunters killed the last of the trumpeter swans living in the eastern part of North America. Now that the birds are protected by law, scientists hope to restore them to their former range. But unlike birds who have their migration maps built in, trumpeters must learn the routes from their parents. So scientists in the Trumpeter Swan Migration Project are taking on the role of parent swans, teaching cygnets to follow ultralight aircraft in an effort to reintroduce a migrating population to the Atlantic coast.This fascinating fieldwork includes transportation of ten-day-old cygnets from Alaska to the training site in New York State, the design of a special…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 9/30/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 64
Size: 11.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Elinor Osborn learned of the Trumpeter Swan Migration Project when the biologist/pilot for the project presented a slide show at a local bird club meeting. The work sounded so exciting, she rolled out of bed at 4:30 a.m. a few days later to see the swans-in-training for herself. A professional photographer and writer, Elinor Osborn lives in Penfield, New York.