The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne
Roxie Laybourne built forensic ornithology at the Smithsonian out of the fragments left when birds hit aircraft, reshaping aviation safety and solving crimes along the way.
Roxie Laybourne invented forensic ornithology at the Smithsonian, identifying birds from the fragments left after they struck aircraft, work that reshaped aviation safety and solved crimes along the way. Sweeney tells the story of a woman who spent decades building a discipline that nobody else thought existed, and got very little credit for it.
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In The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne (public library), Chris Sweeney writes:
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