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Showing posts with label Seabirds. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Matt Ridley: The Secret Lives of Seabirds


Two fine new books on the journeys of birds and the first ornithologist.

This is recent Times feature article I wrote on the incredible new discoveries of what seabirds get up to far from land, and on the man who first visited seabird colonies with a scientific eye in the 1660s. 

It's sometimes still possible to write this kind of discursive essay! 

This one is about two of my friends from the same research group at Oxford.