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Birdscapes.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

| April 20, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2009 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The CondÃ© Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Who watches the bird-watchers? This inventive disquisition is alert to both the dawn chorus of birds and the great choir of poets, travellers, and naturalists who have rhapsodized them. Central to the book is the ambiguity of the word "identify": on one level, the drive to identify and list birds forms the core of bird-watching; on another, there is the "impulse to identify with the creature hunted, pursued, loved or studied." The ...

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