"Birding and ornithology; sport and science; amateur and professional. The gulf seems pretty wide today, but in fact it's a fairly recent phenomenon. For most of the history of bird study, there was no such division; the ornithologist were all gifted amateurs, and the science of studying birds was enmeshed with the joy of watching them. ... And it's hard to find an academically trained ornithologist with a string of initials after his or her name who isn't also an avid birder."
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Scott Weidensaul, (1st edition 2007)
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