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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection. Great Flamingo tongues & heads: p.

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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

10,000 Birds

45 of these bulbuls were unlucky enough to be dissected for an analysis of their stomach content, resulting in a paper for the Journal Of Oil Palm Research. Instead, it is apparently derived from the French word for guava as the species was seen to frequently visit guava trees.

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