Just finished an excellent three pages in The New York Review Of Books - from an actual copy of the mag purchased at Holland Village; I don't think you can get the article in question, Birds: The Inner Life, on-line. All sorts of fascinating nuggets. For example, it seems our avian chums actually have feelings in their beaks which contain an elaborate sensory system encompassing touch and taste. Oh, and amateur ornithologists have had quite a spikey relationship over time with the professionals in their field yet made contributions of real substance in their studies. And that excellent hunter of birds, and even better illustrator, James Audubon, just didn't see any conflict between these two modes of his capturing them.
Who said life was boring, eh?
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