Thu.Feb 06, 2020

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Bernd Heinrich’s new book “White Feathers” — a review

10,000 Birds

Two epigraphs open Bernd Heinrich’s White Feathers: The Nesting Lives of Swallows, each so redolent of his work as a whole, not just this new book, that they deserve to be quoted, even in a mere review, in full. The first is from the American naturalist William Beebe: “I was walking across our compound last month when a queen termite began building her miraculous city.

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Birding in the times of the coronavirus

10,000 Birds

Well, a somewhat obvious title for a blog post from China these days, particularly from somebody who pretends to have at least a basic grasp of world literature (and who has recently watched “Looking for Alaska” with its frequent allusions to another one of Marquez` works). Though Shanghai is not the center of the virus outbreak (that would be Wuhan, about 800 km from here), the impact of the disease is strong.

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