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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

10,000 Birds

I saw them at Ayers Rock which while I was there had the worst floods in memory (my parents in Germany thought I must be traveling under a bad star, as they heard about these floods in the German news and knew I was there at that time). .” Funny how the difficulty of breeding a species can be illustrated in simple monetary terms.

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

10,000 Birds

He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. The 32-page insert of color plates presents 63 images of paintings, book plates, mosaics, photographs, and a map, culled from Wikipedia Commons and other sources.