PREVIEW: More revelation from a much longer conversation with author Stephen Moss, this time of the Snowy Egret that was cruelly and greedily hunted because of the late 19th Century fad for bird feathers in lady's hats. It came right in the end, but not
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Ten Birds That Changed the World Hardcover – by Stephen Moss (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Birds-That-Changed-World/dp/1541604466
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1900 s women
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| 0:56.0 | This is John Bachelor. More from my great fun speaking with Stephen Moss, the birds that change the world. |
| 1:06.4 | This is just one of the anecdotes that Stephen has in the ten birds that change the world. |
| 1:11.2 | This one about the snowy egress and a fashion in the |
| 1:15.3 | 19th century into the 20th for women's hats with elaborate feathers, sometimes whole birds and their hats or brooches. This is about the |
| 1:25.8 | snowy egret and how an outrage by one particular man who had helped farm snowy eg Egrets, murder Snowy Egrets when he was a child, how his |
| 1:36.9 | murder led to reform and women campaigning against feathered hats. Here's Stephen Moss, the Snowy |
| 1:45.6 | Egret, a murder in the South, and a society of women to stop the |
| 1:51.8 | exploitation, not only Snow egrets, but all beautiful plumage of all birds around the world. |
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