10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. Lovette (2020). Beneath him hung two midnight-purple discs, seemingly unattached from the bird itself, so thin were the filaments of feather spine that supported them. Billerman, and I.J. In Birds of the World (S.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. He interviews breeders about rumors of raptor trafficking and egg smuggling, activities that have supposedly been stopped. Simon & Schuster, February 2020, 336 pages.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
In what has become the modern-day traditional method of organization, species are listed and described on the left-hand page and illustrative plates are on the right. Each species is numbered, with the numbers referring to the illustrations on the right. More on Species Accounts.
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