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...richness of animal behavior and man's beliefs about it. Ibis guano, the reader learns, enriches the ecology of the Everglades by increasing plankton growth; a loon can be imitated on the ocarina; geese occasionally become homosexual, pair-bonding for life even when heterosexual partners are present; an auk's egg is a marvel of engineering, shaped so that it will not roll from its cliff-edge nest...
...watchers, it was almost as if John James Audubon had been exposed as a forger or the American eagle reclassified as a turkey vulture. In fact, the American Ornithologists' Union, the Vatican of bird watching, has come perilously close to such heresy. A pronunciamento in the A.O.U. magazine Auk stripped the Baltimore oriole of its name; henceforth Icterus galbula will be known by the prosaic name "northern oriole." A dozen other busted species include the European teal (to green-winged teal), Audubon's warbler and the myrtle warbler (to yellow-rumped warbler), the red-shafted, yellow-shafted...
...officially as "endangered species." They range from the black-footed ferret, which roams the Dakotas, to Bachman's warbler, which flits through the swamps of the Southeast. In recent years, as the Government made it official policy to save these creatures from going the way of the great auk, the news of threatened extinction has slowly changed to news of survival. Some of the latest developments...
...changed since then. Women have been members of the staff and executive boards for nearly twenty years. Dress and decorum have loosened up a little. The Crimson medal has gone the way of the Great Auk...
...changed since then. Women have been members of the staff and executive boards for nearly twenty years. Dress and decorum have loosened up a little. The Crimson medal has gone the way of the Great Auk...