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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The scope is worldwide; of the 24 birds depicted, five are from the Americas; five from Eurasia; three from New Zealand; two from Australasia; three from Africa; one from Africa and Asia; one from Antarctica; two worldwide, and two from Asia, introduced worldwide. © 2023 Tony Angell; © 2023 Mark E. of Chicago Press, 2014).

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Some thoughts on scientific collecting

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

If you want to know why most scientists support collecting this piece in Science explains it better than I can. I can understand why some people are conflicted, but the value to science of the collections is immense. New Zealand Bitterns. And most haunting was the cupboard of mounted specimens of extinct species.

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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

Some thoughts on scientific collecting

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