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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”

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Of Whiskey Jacks and Water Ouzels

10,000 Birds

Gray Jay : This drab but charismatic species demonstrates that the more a bird interacts with humans, the more colloquial names it will tend to pick up. Also known as Meat-bird, Moosebird, and Lumberjack. (The The deity himself, according to the all-knowing internet, was not associated with jays but with cranes.)

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