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Newspaper Article
There is more to turkeys than gracing our Christmas tables
2011
Overview
I came across it at the edge of a lake when the Maya guides got excited and started shouting and looking at something just inside the lake shore forest. I peered through the branches and saw a rainbow, or that's what it seems like in memory: a glowing mixture of iridescent bronze, and green, and blue, with a lustrously brilliant blue head and neck: an ocellated turkey, the second of the world's two turkey species. For [Mark Cocker] is now engaged in producing Birds and People, a close look at human relations with all the birds in the world; you'll be able to enjoy his lengthy turkey disquisition on publication, and you won't be disappointed. Mark Cocker's Birds and People promises to be the most ambitious mapping ever undertaken of the cultural significance of birds: a doorstep-sized 400 000-word account of how humans have interacted with every family of the 10 000 bird species found across the globe - from eagles to doves, from swallows to storks, from robins to ravens.
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Independent Online (South Africa)
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