Sparrow Todd Kim
Sparrow Todd Kim Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Able to live in the Arctic and the desert, from Beijing to San Francisco, the house sparrow is the most ubiquitous wild bird in the world. Sparrows…
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Sparrow Todd Kim
Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Able to live in the Arctic and the desert, from Beijing to San Francisco, the house sparrow is the most ubiquitous wild bird in the world. Sparrows are everywhere and wear many guises.
In Sparrow, award-winning science and natural history writer Kim Todd explores the bird's complex history, biology, and literary tradition. They are the subject of elegies by Catullus and John Skelton and listed as "pretty things" in Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book--but they're also urban vermin with shocking manners that were so reviled that Mao placed them on the list of Four Pests and ordered the Chinese people to kill them on sight. Todd describes the difference between Old World sparrows, like the house sparrow, which can nest in a garage or in an airport, and New World sparrows, which often stake their claim to remote islands or meadows in the high
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