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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

71): Ingredients include feathers from a Spangled Cotinga (called ‘Chatterer’ by tiers), Blue Macaw, Red-Ruffed Fruitcrow (‘Indian Crow’), Ostrich, and, according to Johnson, Golden Pheasant (the jungle c**k, I think). Here it is as typed out in The Feather Thief (p.

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A History of Birdwatching in 100 Objects: A Review

10,000 Birds

1700, is a fake, formed from a plaster cast of a real Dodo head and real Dodo feet combined with chicken wings and Ostrich feathers. 40, 1895) helped me appreciate practices that were essential to the late 19 th century naturalist, though controversial and, in the case of oology, illegal today. I’m not sure what to make of this.