Critter News
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
Alistair Darling, the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, is in Canada for a G-7 meeting. Real emotional blackmail on the part of the Canadians. Stay classy Canada! Tags: canada UK europe seal hunt inuit seals G7. Good for him! The Canadian are just using its native peoples as a guilt rod.
10,000 Birds
MAY 14, 2016
Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? How can we say that magic is a farce when the May blossoms are backdropping bright, breeding plumaged Canadas , Magnolias , Chestnut-sideds , chocolate Bay-breasteds , and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks ? No, everyone should be out birding.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 20, 2016
It was also in some ways an emotional quest for Audubon, who was freshly driven to complete his great work in the face of his first intimations, not only of his own mortality, but also of the idea that his beloved adopted continent was not inexhaustible and that its natural riches could be destroyed by constant exploitation.
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. We simply refuse to squee. Some people love books like that. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text.
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2021
There’s something off-putting about her prose – it’s immensely earnest, precious, and by turns giddy and despairing (“If there is a sadness as big as the galaxy, I feel it now”), so that neither of those latter two emotions is very believable. 26 (US), $34 (Canada). By Kathleen Dean Moore. Counterpoint Press, Berkeley, 2021, 249 pp.,
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. Just be prepared to be a little bit frustrated and a little bit jealous.
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