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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

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The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. Fine and dandy. Various experts are enlisted in support of this idea.

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Hornbills of Sabah

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The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak. Then she tried to feed it to the remaining chicks.