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Ten Birds That Changed the World | Stephen Moss

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Our discussion thread for February's #buddyread

🐦‍⬛ Did you like the author's writing style?
🦃 Did you have a favourite chapter/bird?
🐦 Did that differ from the one you expected to like most? If so, why?
📚 Would you recommend this author or try his other books?

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Bookwormjillk I'm still trying to track this one and the next one down but please keep me tagged. Eventually some day I will catch up. 2w

AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk The audiobook of 10 birds is on Everand, if you have it. 2w

Bookwormjillk @AllDebooks I do, but for some reason they tell me it's not available every month and to check back next month. 2w

AllDebooks @Bookwormjillk well that's irritating. Spotify have it. https://open.spotify.com/show/1DCUTOostrYyiboHqU4U3G?si=ggWJ-udMQfWB-ZHJZCtOAw 2w

AllDebooks It's included in the Spotify premium package jere in UK. Not sure about States. 2w

Chelsea.Poole I listened to about half of this. I gave up because I found the information about each bird pretty basic and nothing new to me. 2w

Bookwormjillk @AllDebooks I gave in and changed my Everand subscription so I can access this and a few others. Hoping to get to it soon! 1w

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TheKidUpstairs

Ten Birds That Changed the World | Stephen Moss

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Love the idea, but it's just not working for me in execution. Moss gives far too broad an overview of each bird to engage me as a reader. If you have even the most basic knowledge of any of these birds, you are likely not going to learn anything new here. For me, this would have been more effective if it delved into one specific thing/story about each bird (kind of like Eight Bears did), rather than try to do a complete overview in 30-40 pages.

TheKidUpstairs Also, stating that something in the natural world "still occurs" and using a study from 1946 as your evidence is not convincing. That's 80 long years of change! 1mo

dabbe #hailthebail! #betterbooksahead 🙌🏻 1mo

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DebinHawaii

Ten Birds That Changed the World | Stephen Moss

#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. 🦅 🦜🦩🦤🦢🐓

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AllDebooks That is a great song. 🎵 Thanks for the tag. 1mo

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great song!! 🎵 1mo

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Ten Birds That Changed the World | Stephen Moss

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.

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AllDebooks Thank you for the share x 2mo

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AllDebooks

Ten Birds That Changed the World | Stephen Moss

#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.

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julieclair This one looks fascinating! 👍 2mo

AllDebooks @julieclair I think so. I can't work out which chapter I'm most excited to read. Odin's raven is up there. 2mo

julieclair @AllDebooks Don‘t have my copy yet, but Odin‘s Raven sounds like a great place to start! 1mo

Schnoebs Just stumbled upon this group. Would love to join! 1mo

AllDebooks @Schnoebs oh yay, wonderful. Welcome to NaturaLitsy. It's a very relaxed, friendly group. We also have a #dailybuddyread

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psalva

A Natural History of American Birds of Eastern and Central North America | Edward Howe Forbush, John Bichard May

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

Owls: Their Natural and Unnatural History | John Sparks, Tony Soper

Aw. RIP Tony Soper.

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LibraryCin

The Genius of Birds | Jennifer Ackerman

so-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 6mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Ten Birds That Changed the World | Stephen Moss

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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. 8mo

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. 8mo

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
8mo

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