Abstract
This book has an important message from a fastidious observer of owls: Science is more than technology. Technology is only one tool of the scientist. Contemporary students, dazzled by high tech gene transfer, humming laboratories, chromosome painting, GIS methods, and a plethora of other techniques--all wonderful in themselves--seldom think of Darwin’s voyage on the Beagle as a scientific process. We usually use the phrase the scientific method--hypothesis, experimentation, etc. Is this what Darwin used? No. Much of science is careful observation--a trait we need to develop early on in the training of young scientists. This book deals with careful observation as well as experimentation using such modern techniques as radio telemetry.