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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. Maybe Moss is right, and birds have changed history. But more often, one would think, it’s the other way around: humans have led to “paradigm shifts” in avian history, and not in a good way. Millions of Chinese died in the ensuing famine.