Frontman (and part-time ornithologist) Jonathan Meiburg spoke to Soundcheck host John Schaefer about Rook and led the band in performance at the WNYC Studios.
In 1837 Gould also helped Charles Darwin a fledgling naturalist but no ornithologist to classify his species of finches and mockingbirds after the return of the Beagle.
An ornithologist, he lived 'til he was 97, and so I got to see the way he would collect and classify and write systematically about his bird collection.