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...nine and an old member of the Audubon Society. You might like to know that the bird in the background of the Evtushenko cover is a bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula...
Lonely? The Voice of Audubon is always on call at KE 6-4050 to carry on a lively conversation about the wildlife of our fair state...
...binoculars at the ready. Their aim is simple: to enjoy the pure outdoorsy fun of spotting birds. The rarer the find, the prouder the birder, who rushes to seek out the nearest fellow birdsman to report his triumph. Most of these birders are among the 235,000 members of Audubon societies, which this year sent out about 10,000 people in platoons to take the 1961 bird census in 50 states. Each group covered a specific sector with a 15-mile diameter. It was no lark. In many cases, birders have to photograph rare specimens to get credit for them...
...Natural History magazine, two physicists (Cambridge University's Dr. I.C.T. Nisbet and M.I.T.'s Dr. R. R. Richardson) team up with Ornithologist W. H. Drury Jr. of the Massachusetts Audubon Society to report the triumphs of electronic bird watching. Even the earliest radars, they say, picked up mysterious targets that operators call "angels." Most of the angels proved to be big birds-seagulls or wild geese-but when radars were improved, even small songbirds turned up as targets. They were such a nuisance on radarscopes that M.I.T. scientists worked out an electronic circuit to make radars blind...
...accent was American; only a handful of artists-notably Delacroix, Courbet and Renoir-were foreigners, and almost all came from Bouvier-land. For the rest, along with Mary Cassatt, John Audubon and Childe Hassam, there were some art ists who had scarcely been heard of for years. A former naval person like the President would understandably favor a seascape by James Bard. But a Mount Monomonac by the sentimentalist Abbott Thayer, who died in 1921, or a portrait of Queen Victoria by the stodgy Franz Winterhalter, whom Ruskin dubbed a "dim blockhead," were plainly special tastes...