Document Hunting Iraq Science 
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
The potpourri covers some interesting bird related science of the last few weeks, and the promise is this: I’ll get to that other stuff soon, I promise! So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings. BBC has the story as a video. “We may be talking about 50,000 to 100,000 deaths.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. He describes lark mirrors and other contraptions that were used to entice the birds into traps in detail, and cites the few documented numbers of larks sold in market in the early 19 th century (826, 462 in the Paris market in 1832).
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