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Birding as we know it began in the mid-19th century, when shotgun-toting gentlemen on both sides of the Atlantic set out to “collect” as many specimens as they could. One prominent naturalist, Spencer Baird of Pennsylvania, had amassed a collection of 3,696 birds by 1850, a feat that earned him a top position at the new Smithsonian Institution. (The assemblage filled two…
Olivia Gentile
Aza Y. Alam
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Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.
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