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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. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text.

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Getting sentimental: Birding at Baihualing, China

10,000 Birds

The species name sipahi comes from the Hindustani word for soldier, for the red uniform worn by those in the employment of the East India Company ( source ). Of the three basic online sources I use for general species information (HBW, eBird, Wikipedia), eBird seems to be the one most prone to emotions.

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