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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached. Prized for their feathers, most of the birds that are recovered do not have their tags, the biodata, attached. His dream is to find them still intact, attached to their tags, their biodata. Rist has de-feathered them as part of a black market enterprise.

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Beautiful Blue Backyard Bird

10,000 Birds

In the finest tradition of Romanticism, gulls dwell in the mystic world of dark and morbid imagery and emotions, which is expressed in often eroticized ways of aesthetic self-dramatization*. Tags: features , gulls • Have you seen the cool 10,000 Birds t-shirts? Gulls are deep and meaningful creatures. Thanks, Wikipedia !

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