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Natural History
Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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There's a pleasure in knowing the names of things. It's not about a need to categorise the world, sectioning it into little boxes. And clearly you don't have to know the names of rocks - or trees or plants or birds - in order to enjoy a landscape. But if you do have this information, something changes about the way you exist in that space. A named landscape thickens. It's to do with history and context but also, I think, with the quality of attention. To assign something its name, you need to ta
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― Notes from Deep Time
― Notes from Deep Time
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I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring discarded seeds with painstaking accuracy. The short answer: Songbirds prefer shorter, fatter unshelled sunflower seeds, more depth than length, because they contain more oil. They take half a second to judge the seeds, dropping the low-density ones, until they find a seed to their liking.
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― The Backyard Bird Chronicles
― The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Nature/Naturalist/Environmentalist literature - aiming for diversity of writer/writing.
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