of owls in Edmund Selous's
Bird Watching (1901) Selous started as a conventional naturalist, but developed a hatred of the killing of animals for scientific study and was a pioneer of bird-watching as a method of scientific study. He was a strong proponent of non-destructive bird-study as opposed to the collection of skins and eggs. In his book
Bird Watching (Selous, 1901) he said: The shooting of birds for so called scientific purposes, like building museum collections, he strongly rejected. He was a solitary man and was not well known in ornithological circles. He avoided both the company of ornithologists and reading their observations so as to base his conclusions entirely on his own observations. He believed that every observed detail should be published and produced a number of ornithological books and papers as well as several other books on popular natural history and a natural history series for children. In 1901, he authored a series of articles for the
Saturday Review which were reprinted by the
Humanitarian League as a pamphlet, "The Old Zoo and the New". ==Bibliography==