The Feather Thief: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2018
This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. The skins were invaluable tools for ornithological, ecological, environmental research. Mostly adult males. The Flame Bowerbird, for example.
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