Nature Talk: How One Woman Changed How We See Birds

Merilyn Simonds

Merilyn is the author of Woman, Watching: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay, the story of Louise de Kiriline Lawrence.

In 1935 Louise retreated to her wilderness cabin on the Mattawa River where she spent the next 50 years studying birds. Training herself in the art of observation and ornithology, she published ground-breaking studies and wrote six books and almost a hundred magazine stories on birds.