Tag: Physics

Initial Reviews of my Book: Many Good, One Rather Inexplicable

September 17, 2025

So I’ve had some very nice reviews of my book, The Physics of Birds and Birding. I am very grateful for these, and they have been coming from birding organizations, birders, bloggers, and several ornithology journals. On a recent podcast, the American Birding Association had three reviewers good through their top five birding books of … More Initial Reviews of my Book: Many Good, One Rather Inexplicable

The Physics of Birds and Birding: The Sounds, Colors and Movements of Birds, and Our Tools for Watching Them

May 1, 2025

Pelagic Publishing, based in the UK, is set to release my book, The Physics of Birds and Birding, on May 20. Here’s the Table of Contents: Preface : Looking Up1 At the Feeder: Birds, Mathematics and Symmetry2 In the Garden: Hummingbirds, Flowers and Forces3 On the Open Seas: Length Scales, Migration and Molecules4 In a … More The Physics of Birds and Birding: The Sounds, Colors and Movements of Birds, and Our Tools for Watching Them

More Thoughts on Bird Names and Barriers

November 10, 2023

Edit: Please sign the petition here: https://chng.it/srvVNZ5mSZ The image above pictures Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. He was a brilliant physicist whose work helps us understand how blue feathers get their color, among many other things. His name is attached to concepts such as Raman scattering and Raman spectroscopy. The natural world overflows with an abundance … More More Thoughts on Bird Names and Barriers