The archive of posts from the original Born Again Bird Watcher blog.
There is a famous story about a noted British lepidopterist who as a boy with a developing interest in butterflies and moths happened to note a listing in a magazine for a new book titled The Mother’s Handbook. No image of the cover was shown nor was anything else about the book described. Sure that […]
The tradition is as old as anyone can remember; toss a coin into a well or a fountain while making a wish and it just might come true. Sadly, this tradition seems to have recently been expanded to include the tossing of coins into natural formations such as ponds, rivers, and canyons for this same […]
As I had made reference in a previous post to my recent reading of a book that should easily make anyone’s short list of top natural history books for 2009, Jeremy Mynott’s Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, I thought interested readers might like to know that an ongoing trivia contest pertaning to the […]
Not too far into the ninth chapter of Jeremy Mynott’s superb new book Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, I discovered a reference to a bird (one of which I had not previously heard) that may quite possibly be the bearer of the best name I have ever encountered having been applied to any […]