Clifford B. Frith is an ornithologist and wildlife photographer. He has held appointments at The Natural History Museum in London and has performed ornithological research for the Royal Society of London, as well as the Bird Department of the British Museum. Frith has also researched and professionally photographed birds in Australia, New Guinea, the South Pacific, the Galapagos, and many other locations. He is the author of six books, including two titles in OUP's Bird Families of the World series (1998 and 2004).
Chapter 1 The fledgling bird watcher
Chapter 2 The voyaging bird observer
Chapter 3 The bird collector returns and writes about them
Chapter 4 The sedentary ornithologist thinks of origins
Chapter 5 The variation of birds under domestication
Chapter 6 The ornithologist thinks about avian sex
Chapter 7 More thoughts on sex, and emotions, in birds
Chapter 8 Charles Darwin as a fully fledged ornithologist
Appendix 1 The complete published ornithology of Charles Darwin
Appendix 2 Birds named after Charles Darwin
Appendix 3 Birds collected by Charles Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle
Appendix 4 John Gould as an anti-Darwinian visual propagandist
