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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

10,000 Birds

Acariformes: Syringophilidae) from the Chestnut-eared Bunting (Passeriformes: Emberizidae) in Japan (morphology and DNA barcode data)” Ah, to be a scientist. On the other hand, in the West, mice, and rats are also kept as pets, maybe with the same logic. Possibly a survivor of siblicide (which would make it a killer, right?).

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