Song Sparrow Madrona Marsh Torrance California 139
" “The land was defended and won by age-old ceremonies and fierce battle…. Their conflicts with each other and their neighbors, their luck with their wives and devotion to their babies… the fortunes of their sons and daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren—all these were watched season in and season out until tragedy overtook them.”
Surprisingly, this passage is not referring to Game of Thrones. It instead describes the lives of song sparrows!
Renowned ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) wrote this in the opening pages of her book The Watcher at the Nest (1939), which recounts her experiences studying song sparrows in her Ohio backyard in the 1930s. She conducted these groundbreaking studies at home while raising a family of five children." blognature.org
The Battles of Song Sparrows: How a Scientific Outsider Changed How We Study Birds
By Joe Smith PhD
Song Sparrow Madrona Marsh Torrance California 139
" “The land was defended and won by age-old ceremonies and fierce battle…. Their conflicts with each other and their neighbors, their luck with their wives and devotion to their babies… the fortunes of their sons and daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren—all these were watched season in and season out until tragedy overtook them.”
Surprisingly, this passage is not referring to Game of Thrones. It instead describes the lives of song sparrows!
Renowned ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice (1883-1974) wrote this in the opening pages of her book The Watcher at the Nest (1939), which recounts her experiences studying song sparrows in her Ohio backyard in the 1930s. She conducted these groundbreaking studies at home while raising a family of five children." blognature.org
The Battles of Song Sparrows: How a Scientific Outsider Changed How We Study Birds
By Joe Smith PhD