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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

Excuse the sudden and random departure from the typical self-aggrandizing and narcissistic ornithophilic content. What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. That will return next month. – The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive Animal rights. For example, when the U.S.