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I give a monkeys' because I see a world that is
being destroyed by people who have lost connection with nature. How to create
that connection is my motivation.
David Attenborough has done more than anyone on
earth to promote love of nature. Yet in his TV series on birds he dumbed down
many bird names to a single word. He would just say: 'Here is an albatross',
without naming the species. Why did he do that? Because, as the world's
leading communicator about nature, he could see that long names are a turnoff.
Many birders cannot see that because they have lived with the names for so
long.
I like the old country names like 'blue jay' but
fear that these are dying out along with the generation that used them, hence my
concern.
Tim
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