THE EVER VIGILANT BIRDS OF NEW ENGLAND AND NEW SOUTH WALES ALWAYS HAVE A PLAN. 1/8 Ten Birds That Changed the World Hardcover – by Stephen Moss (Author)
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Birds-That-Changed-World/dp/1541604466
For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religions, and rituals; exploited them for their natural resources; and been inspired by them for our music, art, and poetry.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor. |
| 0:08.0 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:10.1 | The Wild Turkey, one of ten birds featured in a new book I highly recommend for Thanksgiving |
| 0:16.4 | and any other time of the year. |
| 0:18.9 | Ten birds that change the world. |
| 0:21.3 | Stephen Moss is the author, a distinguished author, an environmentalist, |
| 0:26.4 | television producer for the BBC Natural History Unit, |
| 0:29.6 | and here to take us to the legend and the facts of the wild turkey. |
| 0:35.2 | Stephen, a very good evening to your book is a joy, and we're going to follow you through history and across the continents. |
| 0:41.3 | But we begin with the wild turkey because I am familiar here in New England. |
| 0:47.3 | The wild turkey has reestablished itself. |
| 0:49.3 | You have some wonderful numbers to say how it's come back with protection and habitat being protected in some fashion. |
| 0:59.1 | The wild turkey was discovered when Europeans came to America. |
| 1:04.2 | The wild turkey certainly is a much more capable than given credit. |
| 1:09.4 | It's 2.5 to five point four kilograms |
| 1:13.3 | and it lives in mixed forests |
| 1:15.5 | what did |
| 1:16.5 | europe make of the wild turkey when it first heard about this |
| 1:21.0 | uh... what did they |
| 1:22.3 | make of the fact that the americans |
| 1:24.7 | over that course of the eighteen century decided to make the Turkey a major piece of our legend, |
| 1:31.6 | so much so that it was almost, if this apocryphal is correct, our national bird. |
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