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DebinHawaii
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#25Alive!

A #FaveNewSong (okay newish) of mine is Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish so I‘m pairing it with the tagged book, the #Naturalitsy buddy read selection for February. 🦅 🦜🦩🦤🦢🐓

https://open.spotify.com/track/6dOtVTDdiauQNBQEDOtlAB?si=qkhawyNJTDu1S4iz0vFpxg

AllDebooks That is a great song. 🎵 Thanks for the tag. 5d
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great song!! 🎵 4d
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LitsyEvents
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Repost for @AllDebooks

#NaturaLitsy

Our February #buddyread is Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss. This book examines the relationship between humans and birds, using ten key species from all seven continents to tell this natural history.

All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

Original post - https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2831784

AllDebooks Thank you for the share x 1w
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AllDebooks
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#NaturaLitsy

Our February #buddyread is Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss. This book examines the relationship between humans and birds, using ten key species from all seven continents to tell this natural history.

All welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

@LitsyEvents

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psalva
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I love finding watermarks! I hauled this book recently and, beyond the well-written descriptions and plates which will be an excellent birding resource, I was thrilled to find this watermark for Warren‘s Olde Style. A quick search uncovers that this was a line from S.D. Warren Company, Boston. The official description, taken from an advertising digest I found online is, “a watermarked antique finish for type and line illustration.” Cool!

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arlenefinnigan
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Aw. RIP Tony Soper.

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LibraryCin
The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman
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Mehso-so

There are things that birds know or can figure out that is comparable to humans and/or other primates. They are smart. Most of us know how smart corvids are, but other birds are smart, too, in different ways, including sparrows, pigeons… some birds that aren‘t “traditionally” thought of as smart. Cont in comments...

LibraryCin Some of the things discussed in the book include songs, migration, tools, aesthetically—pleasing displays, etc. I listened to the audio, but I bet I would have taken in more had I actually read it in print or via ebook 5mo
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Robotswithpersonality
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Oohhhh, I'm about to be mean.
I'm pretty sure I've read more interesting, detailed and relevant Wikipedia articles. If you googled the birds you can see on the cover, I think you'd get the gist of what is covered in a much more concise and organized fashion. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? My thought going into this book is that there would be recounted moments in history, hopefully not particularly well known, that would cohesively indicate how these birds affect the world/human history. Instead this really is a just a collection of well known moments in history, and trivia about various birds, and then some socially conscious themes which seem out of place. 7mo
Robotswithpersonality 3/? I can appreciate that the author draws attention to animal welfare and endangerment, industrial farming, use of animal products in fashion, use of pesticides and killing of any species for perceived human convenience which of course harms the ecosystem, and the climate crisis, but I feel like if that was the focus it would have been better served by a different book. 7mo
Robotswithpersonality 4/4 Rather than framing it as birds that changed the world, I feel like a more accurate framing of this is ten birds that humans used and misused and therefore feature in our history, mythology and current circumstances.

P.S. I don't need bible citations in my non-fiction, or the long form 'birth of Christ' as a dating method. ✨Just Atheist Pet Peeves✨

⚠️Animal death
7mo
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keithmalek
The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman
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keithmalek
The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman
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keithmalek
The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman
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...the beat of music, comprehend basic principles of physics, remember the past, and plan for the future.