Interview: Author Diana Wells talks about her research of bird names for her book "100 Birds and How They Got Their Names"

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Interview: Author Diana Wells talks about her research of bird names for her book "100 Birds and How They Got Their Names"

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

BOB EDWARDS, host:

Winter seems the perfect time to put a few bird sounds on the air.

(Soundbite of birds chirping)

EDWARDS: The starling--when thousands of other starlings join in, as they do when roosting in spring, they're called a murmuration of starlings because that's what they sound like. Such bits of avian lure can be found in a book published this month titled ...

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