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Bernd Heinrich’s new book “White Feathers” — a review

10,000 Birds

Why do they gather feathers (duck feathers or others, white or sometimes otherwise) to line the nests– and place the feathers in a sort of canopy over the nest, like a parasol with a hole in the top? He does, though, offer a hunch – that the resident pair are “protecting sky space.”).

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