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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

10,000 Birds

The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. They were barely mentioned in The Voyage of the Beagle and not at all in On the Origin of Species. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history.