![]() ![]() ![]() And he has never lost his initial sense of amazement and wonder. His parents agreed that hands-on science experience is essential, albeit with pinched noses perhaps, and have supported and cheered their extraordinary son through such a variety of bird-centric experiments and globe-trotting that he is now a world-renowned expert in that rarefied field of study. At least we don’t have to smell it, though, as we wait patiently with him in his backyard for some vultures to show up. ![]() ![]() As he tells this story and how it played out with such wry humor and oh-gosh enthusiasm, the reader of The Thing With Featherscan’t argue with his plan. (Can’t you just hear that wondrous whispering voice!) As a first bird-of-interest….an interesting choice! The question he was inspired to investigate was, did vultures hunt by sight or smell? And as Noah conceived it, all he needed was a dead deer carcass to attract his subject and further, now that he had achieved a driver’s license, all he had to do was comb the back roads of his neighborhood to locate a fresh one. When he was still in high school he relates that he was inspired by a nature show on TV narrated by David Attenborough to study vultures. My first thought is, I want to meet Noah’s mother! Really, both his parents. Armchair Birding: Keeping up With Noah Strycker ![]()
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