Mapping The Birds Of Bougainville Island
Podcast: Short WavePublished On: Wed Sep 22 2021
Description: In the early 1900s, the Whitney South Sea expedition gathered 40,000 bird specimens for the American Museum of Natural History. The collection is an irreplaceable snapshot of avian diversity in the South Pacific, but is missing key geographic data. To solve this mystery, student researchers dug into field journals to determine where birds from one island came from.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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