10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. more than there really was to see!” (p.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2024
He published a number of books on birds of India and Burma, making me wonder how hard all these overseas civil servants really worked in their day jobs. Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter. His obituary was published in Nature.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2022
” (quoted from Tim Low’s book “The Origin of Song”). The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). On the other hand, the Black Kite is a raptor not known for integrity – Black Kites are opportunistic hunters and are more likely to scavenge ( source ). I am sure Elvis liked it.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2011
But it wasn’t all that diabolical when you consider that it was the Queens Zoo that served as the setting and I also left this clue: “a knowledge of what birds can be seen in my fine borough will be of great assistance to you.&# Those who are really familiar with Queens should know what birds are in the zoo named for our borough.
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Each year, US zoos label thousands of nonhuman animals 'surplus' and treat them accordingly" (87).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2011
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. And no time to look at a book and try and figure it out. Spring is the perfect season to take this book for a spin! Not even sure what I am looking at. Second bird is a Mitred Parakeet.
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