As I had made reference in a previous post to my recent reading of a book that should easily make anyone’s short list of top natural history books for 2009, Jeremy Mynott’s Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience, I thought interested readers might like to know that an ongoing trivia contest pertaning to the book’s contents has been recently updated on the Princeton University Press blog. This week’s question will appeal to all who hold an interest in venereal nouns of an ornithological nature.
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