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“Ornithologists”
― Thomas Gilbert Pearson, The Bird Study Book

“Another time, while crouched among some boulders watching for a flock of Gambel's Quails to come to a water-hole in the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona, a Canyon Wren alighted on my back, for I was covered with an old tent fly so spotted with mildew that it closely resembled the neighbouring rocks. A moment later it flew to a point scarcely more than a foot from my face, when, after one terrified look, it departed.”
― Thomas Gilbert Pearson, The Bird Study Book

“In college and summer-school work I have always insisted on pupils cultivating the notebook habit, and results have well justified this course.”
― Thomas Gilbert Pearson, The Bird Study Book

“The caribou, in long streams, come southward over the barrens of Labrador when the word is passed,”
― Thomas Gilbert Pearson, The Bird Study Book

“On a lonely island in Pamlico Sound I once got some fishermen to cover me with sand and sea-shells, and in that way managed to get a close view of the large flocks of Cormorants that came there to roost every night. The island was small and perfectly barren,”
― Thomas Gilbert Pearson, The Bird Study Book