The Nature Rambler Book Group is suspended for the foreseeable future and the library is closed, so reading our books is proving difficult. One of the upcoming titles is The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman. If you don’t have access to the book already Emily found a number of links that will give you an idea of that books subject.

You can find them on this website, but you’ll have to scroll down and the links are hard to see. I’ve copied them here for your convenience.

For a
podcast on The Genius of Birds, created at the Aspen Ideas Festival
in June 2018 by Flora Lichtman of “Every Little Thing”, click here.

Listen to
NPR interview April 12, 2016 with “On Point”.

Read
excerpt in Smithsonian.com

Read Q
& A with Scientific American Mind.

Read interview
with Audubon.

Again, if you have links you’d like to share with other Ramblers send them to me and I’ll publish them on this blog.

Dale

If you’re still sheltering at home you might enjoy reading about the history of plagues. It’s by Elizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize winning author who writes for The New Yorker.

Linda recommends it and I do too. 

Here’s the link.

Dale 

P.S. I plan to post links to interesting subjects as I find or receive them. If you have any you’d like to share with other Ramblers just send me the link and I’ll publish it, giving you credit, of course.

I hope everyone is staying healthy and keeping safe.

In lieu of our Rambles I thought I’d share an interesting link I stumbled across. Just a bit of nature to entertain you. 

I’ll try to post more of these until the pandemic passes.