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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

10,000 Birds

The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain. Today,” Moss somberly concludes, “we are still faced with the thorny issue of whether the eagle is a positive or negative symbol.”