My chiggypig and other animals
‘Nomenclature is based on attempts to understand behaviour, hence woodcock pilot’
ON a rainy night in early March of 1928, after hours of debate about soldiers’ pensions, the Protection of Lapwings Bill was read out in the House of Commons. The legislation had been proposed in the hope of bringing an end to people setting out in spring to pick the iridescent waders’ eggs. It wasn’t felt that a gamekeeper taking one or two from a clutch for their master’s supper was much of
