高中英语教学：Feather Detective.docx

Feather?Detective By?Pamela Tuchscherer Imagine having a job where you?can create a new science, save lives, and?solve murders. That’s what Roxie Laybourne?achieved as a feather detective. She spent?fifty-eight years at the Smithsonian National?Museum of Natural History solving bird mysteries.Born in 1910, Roxie Laybourne spent?her childhood wandering through the fields?and woods of Farmville, North Carolina.?She followed anything that crawled or flew. Seeing a bird, she’d note the size and color and then ask her grandmother to identify it.When she was ten years old, her friends wanted to be n