Bird-lore
Bird-lore

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Publisher:

Published: 1903

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Vols. 5-28 include its educational leaflets.

Yard Birds
Yard Birds

Author: Philip Levy

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2023-04-18

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0813949661

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In 2009, the New Yorker declared chickens the "it bird" and heralded "the return of the backyard chicken." This honor occurred as, a host of American cities were changing their laws to allow chickens in residents’ backyards. Philip Levy, a sometime chicken keeper himself, mixes cultural history with husbandry to chronicle the weird and wonderful story of Americans’ urban chickens. From the streets of Brooklyn to council chambers in Albany to the beat of Key West’s Chicken Nuisance Patrol, yard birds are an important and growing part of American city life. Part history, part travelogue, and part reportage, Yard Birds takes the reader on a tour-de-force journey across America, past and present, to profile its urban chickens housed in luxury coops or dying at yearly rituals. What emerges is a compelling picture of city chickens that can both serve as hipster status symbols and guarantee that the families keeping them have at least something to eat. Levy’s smart and entertaining investigation of the contemporary urban chicken craze reveals that poultry flocks were historically an integral part of America’s urban spaces; chickens have simply returned home now, some to very fancy roosts.

Saving Asia's Threatened Birds
Saving Asia's Threatened Birds

Author: M. J. Crosby

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780946888474

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This book documents the major forest, grassland andwetland regions of Asia and the globally threatened birdspecies which they support. The most important conservation issuesin each of these habitat regions are outlined, based upon theanalysis in BirdLife's Asia Red Data Book, and recommendations aremade for actions to address these issues. The role ofinternational and regional conventions in the conservation ofAsia's birds and habitats is discussed, and the priority actionsto prevent the extinction of the region's most highly threatenedbirds are identified. The book is illustrated with about 200colour photographs of Asia's birds, habitats and conservationissues, plus maps of key habitats and sites for conservation.Review'...the book is visually lush and easy-to-use practicalreference...' - Endangered Species UPDATE.`BirdLife is earning a world-wide reputation for deliveringhigh quality publications to raise awareness among decision-makersabout the need to conserve biodiversity.' Wildfowl andWetlands`A vital step towards the implementation ofconservation policies in the region.'Birdwatch'Theactions required to protect these key bird habitats are presentedin regional accounts and we hope will be supported by the localpopulation and acted upon by the relevant governmentagency.'Ibis

Japan's Empire of Birds
Japan's Empire of Birds

Author: Annika A. Culver

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-03-24

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1350184942

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As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political aspects of highly mobile Japanese explorer-scientists, or cosmopolitan gentlemen of science, circulating between Japanese and British/American spaces in the transwar period from the 1920s to 1950s. Annika A. Culver examines a network of zoologists united by their practice of ornithology and aristocratic status. She goes on to explore issues of masculinity and race related to this amidst the backdrop of imperial Japan's interwar period of peaceful internationalism, the rise of fascism, the Japanese takeover of Manchuria, and war in China and the Pacific. Culver concludes by investigating how these scientists repurposed their aims during Japan's Allied Occupation and the Cold War. Inspired by geographer Doreen Massey, themes covered in the volume include social space and place in these specific locations and how identities transform to garner social capital and scientific credibility in transnational associations and travel for non-white scientists.

Passions for Birds
Passions for Birds

Author: Sean Nixon

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2022-05-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0228010470

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Whether as sources of joy and pleasure to be fed, counted, and watched, as objects of sport to be hunted and killed, or as food to be harvested, wild birds evoke strong feelings. Sean Nixon traces the transformation of these human passions for wild birds from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, detailing humans’ close encounters with wild birds in Britain and the wider North Atlantic world. Drawing on a rich range of written sources, Passions for Birds reveals how emotional, subjective, and material attachments to wild birds were forged through a period of pronounced social and cultural change. Nixon demonstrates how, for all their differences, new traditions in birdwatching and conservation, field sports, and bird harvesting mobilized remarkably similar feelings towards birds. Striking similarities also emerged in the material forms that each of these practices used to bring birds closer to people – hides and traps, nets and ropes, and binoculars. Wide ranging in scope, Passions for Birds sheds new light on the ways in which wild birds helped shape humans throughout the twentieth century, as well as how birds themselves became burdened with multiple cultural meanings and social anxieties over time.