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

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Birkhead focuses on those stories that both illustrate each chapter’s theme and clearly have meaning to him, and though the Birds and Us of the title primarily refers to how we, humans, observe and value birds, there are forays into birds and art, literature, medicine, food, religion, and biography.

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Birding Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Rice Paddies

10,000 Birds

His combined roles are exemplary of a tendency in Hinduism to see complementary qualities in a single ambiguous figure”, Brittanica ), and who are the Brahmans (members of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood, Oxford Reference ). No further follow-on questions (“What doe Hindu mean?

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