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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. Larks, for example. and also Modern Iraq, Egypt, Albania, Mexico, Poland and the Philippines.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). The Flame Bowerbird, for example. The birds Rist grabbed included Resplendent Quetzals, Spangled Cotingas, Red-ruffed Fruitcrows, and Birds of Paradise collected by Alfred Russel Wallace himself. Mostly adult males.