JOY OF SPRING AIR: 8/8: :Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss (Author)
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Birds-That-Changed-World/dp/1541604466
In Ten Birds That Changed the World, naturalist and author Stephen Moss tells the gripping story of this long and intimate relationship through key species from all seven of the world’s continents. From Odin’s faithful raven companions to Darwin’s finches, and from the wild turkey of the Americas to the emperor penguin as potent symbol of the climate crisis, this is a fascinating, eye-opening, and endlessly engaging work of natural history
1848 Dodo: the cruelty in the background.
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| 0:35.0 | I'm with Stephen Moss. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:38.0 | His new book is Ten Birds that Change the World. |
| 0:41.0 | Hearst the Snowy Equit, a beautiful bird to look at photographs. The Plumage Wars. This had to do with |
| 0:48.2 | fashion, maybe from Marie Antoinette, but certainly by the 19th century in Europe and in America. |
| 0:55.0 | Lady's Hat. |
| 0:57.0 | Stephen, there's a part of the story that's hard to tell |
| 1:00.0 | about the abuse of birds with beautiful plumes like the snowy egress. |
| 1:06.4 | We've changed Stephen. |
| 1:07.9 | There's no toleration for this kind of cruelty today. |
| 1:10.8 | I hope not. |
| 1:11.8 | I mean people still shoot birds certainly in Europe and America, you know, but what happened here was as you say, this was driven by, I suppose, what you'd call posh rich women in New York in Paris in London. |
| 1:24.8 | They wanted to outdo their friends and they did so. |
| 1:28.2 | First, by wearing ostrich feathers which were farmed, so that was less of a problem but then from feathers of wild birds and |
| 1:35.4 | not just feathers people wear things like a hummingbird as a brooch on their |
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