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.
Leader Joseph DiCostanzo, an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History, says his outings have become so popular that waiting lists start forming days after subscriptions go on sale.