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Life List

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Subject: Life List
From: "Mark and Mandy Young" <>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 07:50:30 +1000
Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but when I go birding there's nothing testosterone
driven about it.
Perhaps someone could give me some pointers on how to make it more
testosteronish? ;)

Regards,
Mark and/or Mandy
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 On Behalf Of L&L Knight
Sent: Thursday, 6 August 2009 9:00 PM
To: Birding Aus
Subject: Life List

There's a review of the book Life List: A Woman's Quest for the  
World's Most Amazing Birds (Olivia Gentile, Bloomsbury USA: 2009. 352  
pp) in today's edition of Nature [Nature 460, 689 (6 August 2009) |  
doi:10.1038/460689a].  It tells the story of Phoebe Snetsinger, the  
first person to see 8000 species of birds.  [This is not the normal  
subject matter for a high profile science journal.]

I thought I would share the final paragraph of the review - "... the  
story of a suburban housewife and mother-of-four who became a legend  
in the testosterone-driven world of competitive birding is more than a  
biography. It raises themes that echo through all our lives, from the  
restriction of people's roles by society, to questions of how best to  
spend one's days on Earth. Is pursuing a rare bird a trivial pursuit,  
or a chase worthy of respect? Ultimately, Life List asks what it means  
to live, and die, well."

That is a very good question.

Regards, Laurie.
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