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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. I’d love to read a book about your adventures in Guatemala studying Yellow-naped Amazons, Sophie!) Endangered. Extinction. Conservation. These are the words that define so much of our conversations about the natural world today.

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The Domestic Turkey and the First Thanksgiving

10,000 Birds

Early research suggested that “Fragmented distributions and population bottlenecks due to human activities appear to have increased genetic differentiation among populations” (Leberg 1991). Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius.

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