PREVIEW: #FEATHERS: SNOW YEGRET:: Excerpt from a conversation with author Stephen Moss forhis new work, TEN BIRDS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD:  re  the massacre of the Snowy Egret and  other bright or elaborate plumed birds -- ffor high fashion.  More later.


1895 Snowy Egret

https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Birds-That-Changed-World/dp/1541604466

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