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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Reference books are supposed to be full of documentable facts, not stories from people without a PhD next to their name.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Prologue presents the two contrasting obsessions, a narrative that intrigues with promises of more details to come. This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. I can’t end this review without talking about how impressed I am by Johnson’s research and documentation.