Passeres (Perching birds) - Thrushes, Finches, Swallows, Crows, and Larks
From ‘British Birds and their Nests’ 1910, illustrated by George Rankin
‘Let us beware of needlessly destroying even one of the lives - so sublimely crowning the ages upon ages of evolving; and let us put forth all our efforts to save a threatened species from extinction; to give hearty aid to the last few individuals pitifully struggling to avoid absolute annihilation. The beauty and genius of a work of ar may be reconceived, though the first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again’
C. William Beebe
The Bird: Its Form and Function (1906)
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