I just came across an album that blends electronic music with the sounds of endangered birds in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America. The album’s producers write: “For the album we chose 10 endangered or threatened bird species and challenged
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When artists painted portraits of birds before the advent of color photography, they had to paint from life. Thus … When John James Audubon created his landmark “Birds of America,” he used stuffed birds as models. When Vincent Van Gogh
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A new iteration of Birds of the West Indies came out last year. It arrived after I submitted my manuscript, so it’s not mentioned in The Real James Bond. But that doesn’t preclude my posting about it. I recently ordered
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When I was going through the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Mary Wickham Bond archives, I came across some bizarre stuff. Exhibit A is this 1972 bill from a London dentist — for 6.3 pounds. The language is wonderfully old-fashioned. They
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