Kirsten A. Greer. <i>Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire</i>
Journal: The American Historical Review
Year: 2022

In Red Coats and Wild Birds, Kirsten Greer examines the motivations, practices, and consequences—for science, for empire, for masculinity—of nineteenth-century officer-ornithologists in the British army. Tracing the migratory paths of bird-watching lieutenants, ordnance officers, and military surgeons from their training grounds in the United Kingdom, to imperial way-stations in the Mediterranean (Malta and Gibraltar), to further-flung corners of the Empire (Crimea, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, T