Word: ornithologist
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Nobody loves animals more than the English. They keep pythons in London flats, monkeys in the East End and dogs everywhere. One of the proudest days in Ornithologist Neville Chamberlain's life was when, during one of his customary early morning bird-watching walks with his wife in St. James's Park, he spotted a rare, migratory, dark-pied wagtail duck...
...Ornithologists generally do not like to shoot birds, but that is the best way to collect specimens, so they harden their hearts for the sake of science. One day Ornithologist Karl W. Haller of Bethany College was out in the wooded hills of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. He had a gun; he was looking for warblers.He heard one-a quick, burred trill. He spotted the warbler, stopped the song with a shot...
...Starlings also have a nondescript call of their own. "The greater part of it," says Ornithologist Aretas A. Saunders, "is sibilant, fricative [sounds of zh, sh, th], or harsh and rattling, but here and there the bird intersperses loud, clear, slurred whistles, most of them slurred downward. . . . The young, when gathering in their first flocks in June and committing depredations in cherry trees, make a loud grating or hissing noise...
...about wild ducks and geese-and paints them better in oils-than any living artist. For the last five years his home has been an old lighthouse on The Wash, a place of inlets and tidal marshes on the Lincolnshire coast; where he makes pets of the wild geese. Ornithologist as well as artist, Scott last year spent four months around the Caspian Sea in a vain search for a rare red-breasted goose...
...pigeons deserves a poet but has attracted MacKinlay Kantor. The Noise of Their Wings, laid in Florida of 1937, revolves around the obsession of an aged millionaire, who hankers for a living pair of passenger pigeons. The main role, however, devolves on the millionaire's old friend, an ornithologist, who is Author Kantor's poetic mouthpiece. In a series of melodramatic disasters which involve half the main characters, as well as all the pigeons, the ornithologist is everywhere at once, confirming his mystical foreboding that no good can come of the millionaire's fanaticism, that "this entire...