10,000 Birds
MAY 23, 2021
They will list ten or twenty or fifty titles, and will include, inevitably, Hunter Biden’s autobiography, and Volume 12 of Barack Obama’s, and other such works. They were named for the Isle of Man but are no longer found there – the arrival of the brown rat ruined that home for them. (But Absent mishap, they will live for fifty years.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 21, 2012
Among the Efe (Pygmy) people that I lived with in the 1980s, the young men would in fact disappear from the bosom of their families and spend a lot of time, perhaps months, living on their own in the forest. Which keep eating rat poison. But it seems that many societies have a version of this that is less dramatic. Or get your own.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
These strange birds are two species in their own family; White-necked or Yellow-headed, endemic to the Upper Guinea forests and Grey-necked or Red-headed, restricted to Lower Guinea forests. Whilst in Atewa Range Forest Reserve, a hunter passed us deep in the forest and I asked him to show us his night’s catch.
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