Bird Sense, which I snapped up as an Audible Book of the Day, has been an unexpected delight. The author has been an ornithologist for forty years and his passion for science and birds is enthusiastically voiced on every page. The book is organized by senses - sight, hearing, taste, etc, In each...
I’ve rarely been anywhere where birds are so thin in the air or on the ground. A mere handful of species – several of them flightless and nocturnal – have survived the ravages of introduced European predators, and now exist in tiny numbers, mainly on offshore islands. The sun is already setting a...