10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
It’s not like I had forgotten lists created with friends of ‘songs with birds in the lyrics’, my personal favorites being Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird and the Beatles’ Blackbird. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. As they say, the relationship is complicated.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2015
Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Brown-headed Cowbird itself gets its own section in the Blackbirds and Orioles chapter. We simply refuse to squee. Some people love books like that.
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