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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. The hope was that they would be recovered with the tags attached. Mostly adult males. The Flame Bowerbird, for example.