{"title":"Buteo Book Club","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe're currently reading \u003cem\u003eThe Company of Owls\u003c\/em\u003e. Check out our discussion questions and submit your responses \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/buteobooks.com\/blogs\/news-notes\/buteo-book-club-junejuly-2026-discussion-questions\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e. To get notified of upcoming book selections, and to access the book club conversations, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/buteobooks\/buteo-book-club\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ejoin here\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (it's totally free, all are welcome, and you can participate from anywhere!)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJune 2026: \u003cem\u003eThe Company of Owls \u003c\/em\u003eby Polly Atkin\u003cbr\u003eAugust 2026: \u003cem\u003eFlight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration \u003c\/em\u003eby Rebecca Heisman\u003cbr\u003eOctober 2026: \u003cem\u003eThe Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica \u003c\/em\u003eby Naira de Gracia\u003cbr\u003eJanuary 2027: \u003cem\u003eKingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder \u003c\/em\u003eby Kenn Kaufman\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-last-cold-place-penguins-antarctica","title":"The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffering a dramatic, captivating window into a once-in-a-lifetime experience, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Cold Place\u003c\/em\u003e details Naira de Gracia's time living and working in a remote outpost in Antarctica alongside seals, penguins, and a small crew of fellow field workers. In one of the most inhospitable environments in the world (for humans, anyway), Naira follows a generation of chinstrap penguins from their parents' return to shore to build nests from pebbles until the chicks themselves are old enough to head out to sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaira describes the life cycle of a funny, engaging colony of chinstrap penguins whose food source (krill, or small crustaceans) is powerfully affected by the changing ocean in lively and entertaining anecdotes. Weaving together the history of Antarctic exploration with climate science, field observations, and her own personal journey of growth and reflection, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Cold Place\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the complex place that Antarctica holds in our cultural imagination–and offers a rare glimpse into life on this uninhabited continent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768187584819,"sku":"15415","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0888\/4515\/6659\/files\/15415.jpg?v=1754004750"},{"product_id":"flight-paths","title":"Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration [PB]","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology they developed to uncover the secrets of avian migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the past century, scientists and naturalists have been steadily unravelling the secrets of bird migration. How and why birds navigate the skies, traveling from continent to continent–flying thousands of miles across the earth each fall and spring–has continually fascinated the human imagination, but only recently have we been able to fully understand these amazing journeys. Although we know much more than ever before, even the most enthusiastic birdwatcher may not know how we got here, the ways that the full breadth of scientific disciplines have come together to reveal these annual avian travels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlight Paths\u003c\/em\u003e 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 flight paths and behaviors, their destinations and the challenges they encounter getting there. Uniting curious minds from across generations, continents, and disciplines, bird enthusiast and science writer Rebecca Heisman traces the development of each technique used for tracking migratory birds, from the first attempts to mark individual birds to the cutting-edge technology that lets ornithologists trace where a bird has been, based on unique DNA markers. Along the way, she touches on the biggest technological breakthroughs of modern science and reveals the almost-forgotten stories of the scientists who harnessed these inventions in service of furthering our understanding of nature (and their personal obsession with birds).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe compelling and fascinating story of how scientists solved the great mystery of bird migration, \u003cem\u003eFlight Paths\u003c\/em\u003e is an unprecedented look into exciting, behind-the-scenes moments of groundbreaking discovery. 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