Birds

Scenes and Sketches: America’s Women Naturalists

Margaret Morse Nice

We All Sometimes Feel Like This Bird

That nameless and yet very particular feeling.

“It’s not clear what the Audubon Society did to piss off Jonathan Franzen.”

This is quite possibly my favorite sentence that I’ve ever read. If you missed it this weekend because you were busy Easter/Passovering (I personally had my first Passover as a married woman, and made…

How To Breed Fancy Pigeons

by Sydney Parker

True Detective Rantings

Estate Jewelry: Masonic Orbs and Legendary Peacock Chokers

Genevieve Jones’s ‘Illustrations of the Nests and Birds of Ohio,’ 1886

If Eyes Are the Window to the Soul, Then Crow’s Feet … ?

“The eyes do not lie unless, of course, the person has received Botox around the eyes, in which case the skin around the eyes is unable to wrinkle up, no matter how true a smile.”
 — The Atlantic has an interesting piece on smiling…