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Birds and People: A Book Review

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And, I’ve passed through the Ancient Egypt exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, where the Ibis is featured on pottery fragments, many times. It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. I was surprised at how much and how little cultural significance different bird families hold for us.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Since I was mapping-in human ‘territories’ or home ranges, and trying to figure out how tropical hunter-gatherers found their way around the landscape, the mechanisms of migration were interesting to me. (It Specifically, Itcher Tern. Image source. 2 PIERSMA, T.,

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