Volume 11 tackles Old World flycatchers to Old World warblers. It is high time we listened to them,” writes Dr Sekercioglu. “Birds are telling us that we are darkening our own futures and the prospects of our descendants. Now, they are warning us of potentially devastating and lethal changes in the environment. ![]() ![]() Down the pits, the canaries would exhibit signs of distress or keel over when poisonous methane was in the air. Are there any that haven’t been used to describe this set of books, which now reaches volume 11 and which, if anything, gets even better with each passing edition? It’s no lie to say that every time the latest volume is delivered to the Birdwatch office, there’s a queue just to be able to hold it and gaze at its pages (or is that just too weird?).ĭr Cagan Sekercioglu of California’s Stanford University, in his introductory essay, warns that while we know more about the earth’s avifauna than any other comparable taxonomic group, what we do know is “deeply frightening” and that birds are “clearly serving a function analogous to the canaries that early coal miners took underground with them”.
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