At 09:02 PM 29/06/2009, you wrote:
>Check out a book called "A World of Watchers". It is a fascinating
>history of birdwatching in the US. Each chapter is about a different
>person who advanced the practice of birding. One chapter is about a
>woman in Ohio who studied the Song Sparrows on her family land. She
>got so she could identify individuals by voice and plot their
>nesting territories from year to year.
That woman is Margaret Morse Nice - for more see:
http://www.columbusaudubon.org/production/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=66The Song Sparrow is included in the logo of Columbus Audubon to this
day because of her contributions to our knowledge of this species.
JA
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