Passion for Birds
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Adaptive Coloration in Animals
American Ornithologists' Union
Audubon movement
Audubon Naturalist Society
Author_Mark V. Barrow
Bachman's warbler
Bird
Bird bath
Bird collections
Bird Day
Bird feeder
Bird flight
Bird measurement
Bird migration
Bird vocalization
Birdwatching
Blue-winged warbler
Boone and Crockett Club
British Ornithologists' Union
By Nature
California condor
Carolina parakeet
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Charles Johnson Maynard
Chivalry
Christmas Bird Count
Collecting
Commodification of nature
Common species
Comparative advantage
Dusky seaside sparrow
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Fauna
Flightless bird
Flyway
George Bird Grinnell
House sparrow
Hummingbird
John James Audubon
John Thayer (ornithologist)
Jr.
Leaves of Grass
National Audubon Society
Natural history
Nature and Culture
Nature study
Nature writing
Objections to evolution
On the Origin of Species
Origin of birds
Ornithology
Parakeet
Passenger pigeon
Peregrine falcon
Perpetual peace
Pileated woodpecker
Plume hunting
Poetry
Romanticism
Shared Interest
Song sparrow
Species description
Summer tanager
Swainson's warbler
Taxidermy
The Life of Birds
The Machine in the Garden
Transmutation of species
Tree swallow
Trumpeter swan
Whitney South Sea Expedition
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife photography
Witmer Stone
Product details
- ISBN 9780691049540
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the decades following the Civil War--as industrialization, urbanization, and economic expansion increasingly reshaped the landscape--many Americans began seeking adventure and aesthetic gratification through avian pursuits. By the turn of the century, hundreds of thousands of middle-and upper-class devotees were rushing to join Audubon societies, purchase field guides, and keep records of the species they encountered in the wild. Mark Barrow vividly reconstructs this story not only through the experiences of birdwatchers, collectors, conservationists, and taxidermists, but also through those of a relatively new breed of bird enthusiast: the technically oriented ornithologist. In exploring how ornithologists struggled to forge a discipline and profession amidst an explosion of popular interest in natural history, A Passion for Birds provides the first book-length history of American ornithology from the death of John James Audubon to the Second World War. Barrow shows how efforts to form a scientific community distinct from popular birders met with only partial success.
The founding of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883 and the subsequent expansion of formal educational and employment opportunities in ornithology marked important milestones in this campaign. Yet by the middle of the twentieth century, when ornithology had finally achieved the status of a modern profession, its practitioners remained dependent on the services of birdwatchers and other amateur enthusiasts. Environmental issues also loom large in Barrow's account as he traces areas of both cooperation and conflict between ornithologists and wildlife conservationists. Recounting a colorful story based on the interactions among a wide variety of bird-lovers, this book will interest historians of science, environmental historians, ornithologists, birdwatchers, and anyone curious about the historical roots of today's birding boom.
Mark V. Barrow, Jr., is Associate Professor of History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
