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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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.

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Playing with the Pros

10,000 Birds

The various national versions of Ducks Unlimited are mostly an outgrowth of sports hunting. And even when I did try, my counts came up significantly lower than the science people’s count. I was very pleased to see several Brewer’s Blackbirds mixed in with a large group of Brown-headed Cowbirds and Yellow-headed Blackbirds.

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