How Birds Migrate

Paul Kerlinger served as the director of the New Jersey Audubon Society's Cape May Bird Observatory for seven years and is now an environmental consultant. Pat Archer is an experienced birder and artist living in Connecticut.

This appeared some time ago but deserves ongoing mention as an excellent discussion of the mysteries of migration. Each chapters here focuses on a single aspect of migration, revealing the unusual complexity underlying questions about bird migration processes. Ornithologist Kerlinger provides a lively blend of case study questions and scientific answers which include plenty of maps for at-a-glance details. A fine presentation. --Midwest Book Review

Paul Kerlinger's superb How Birds Migrate ... is a must-read primer on the subject of migration. Kerlinger is an ornithologist and former director of New Jersey Audubon's Cape May Bird Observatory. He is frequent contributor to Birder's World and other birding periodicals. Kerlinger includes chapters on the basics of flight, on route finding, on the benefits of diurnal versus nocturnal passage, on conservation, and the ways in which humans effect migration. As a birder who will drop everything to run to the park in anticipation of a "fallout," (a "fallout" is a result of a weather front which cause migrating birds to seemingly drop out of the skies and stall until conditions change), I particularly recommend the excellent chapter on boundary layer meteorology--an outstanding primer on weather patterns and fronts and how they effect migration. ...
How Birds Migrate is a first-rate primer on the phenomenon of migration and worth reading and re-reading. --Wayne Mones, Audubonmagazine.org, February 24, 2009

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