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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

10,000 Birds

The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction. Millions of Chinese died in the ensuing famine.