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ads. This is John Bachelor speaking with the author Stephen Moss, the new book's Ten Birds that

Change the World.

The bird here is many birds, birds that were massacred for their feathers, for hats at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

When you see the Gibson girls, when you see photographs from 1910, 1900, you'll often see women sometimes in

crowds, sometimes singly walking with their husbands, wearing elaborate

constructions, hats. And out of those hats come these

exotic feathers. Those feathers were farmed, mined, plundered by hunters at the end of the 19th century and it came to a halt because of a tragedy.

Stephen Moss tells the story here.

The hat feathers were cruelty.

And it ended.

Stephen Moss.

I suppose what you'd call posh rich women in New York in Paris in London.

They wanted to outdo their friends and they did so.

First by wearing ostrich feathers which were farmed so that was less of a problem but then from feathers of

wild birds and not just feathers people wear things like a hummingbird as a brooch

on their you know dead one on their on their press and the demand for feathers was huge and of course

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