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The word auspicious, meaning “favorable or promising success,” comes from the Latin, auspex, or “observer of birds.” In ancient Rome, bird-seers were priests, or augurs, who founded their divinations on the flight patterns of birds. The sixteenth-century English noun auspice originally referred to the practice of observing birds to find omens. There’s a deep hunch here. We would do well to watch birds more, tune in to their usual and unusual behaviors, learn while we can from their marvelous—and still often mysterious—ways of being.
The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
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