Watching Birds in the Greenwoods | Birdwatching

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🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Tonight, we’ll be reading another chapter from the book “Bird Watching” published in 1901 by Edmund Selous, titled “Watching Birds in the Greenwoods.” If you enjoy this episode, be sure to listen to our “Blackbirds” episode, “Watching Birds from a Haystack” episode, and “Watching Seabirds”, from this series as well. The author started as a conventional naturalist of his time, but Selous developed a hatred of the common practice at the time of killing animals for scientific study and was a pioneer of bird-watching as a method of scientific study. The author was a solitary man and was not well known in ornithological circles. He avoided both the company of ornithologists and reading their observations so as to base his conclusions entirely on his own observations. The word “greenwood” refers to both unseasoned firewood and a forest in full leaf, as in summer. — read by 'V' — Listen Ad-Free on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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1:12.0	Tonight, we'll be reading another chapter from the book Bird Watching, published in 1901 by Edmund Celis, titled Watching Birds in the Green Woods.
1:26.0	If you enjoy this episode, be sure to listen to our Black Birds episode, watching birds from a haystack, and also watching sea birds from this series as well.
1:38.0	The author started as a conventional naturalist of his time, but Celis developed a hatred of the common practice at the time of killing animals for scientific study and was a pioneer of bird watching as a method of scientific study.
1:58.0	The author was a solitary man and was not well known in ornithological circles.
2:06.0	He avoided both the company of ornithologists and reading their observations so as to base his conclusions entirely on his own observations.
2:20.0	The word Greenwood refers to both unseasoned firewood and, in this case, a forest and full leaf has in summer.
2:38.0	Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.
2:56.0	Now, take a few deep breaths.
3:12.0	This is an independent or self-reliant quality which so many birds possess, and by virtue of which they often act differently to their fellows, even when there is a strong inducement to them to act as they do.
3:32.0	It seems to me an important point. For it must be as the foundation stone upon which change of habit would be built, and change of habit points out a certain path along which change of structure where it to occur would be preserved, and a new species be thus formed.
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