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Lightning Bolt Books ® - Animals in Danger
Endangered and Extinct Birds: Lightning Bolt Books ® - Animals in Danger
Northern rockhopper penguins and colorful pufflegs are two examples of endangered birds. Few of them exist in the wild. Other birds have already gone extinct. What hurts these animals? What can you do to help? Listen to this book to find out!
Please The original source audio for this production includes noise/volume issues. This is the best available audio from the publisher.
Please The original source audio for this production includes noise/volume issues. This is the best available audio from the publisher.
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First published January 1, 2014
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July 25, 2021
Even though I do feel a bit like a curmudgeon only giving Jennifer Boothroyd’s Endangered and Extinct Birds but two stars, I am if truth be told much too textually annoyed and frustrated to even remotely consider a higher rating.
Sure, I am definitely verbally liking that Boothroyd’s presented information on why many species of birds are endangered and why some have actually become recently extinct clearly even if rather simplistically points out that many birds are endangered or have disappeared, have died out because of habitat destruction, over-hunting, pollution and the lucrative international pet trade. And yes, I also do appreciate Boothroyd letting her readers or listeners, letting children know that using too many chemicals, that littering can equally be quite harmful to and for birds, and indeed, the included bibliography for Endangered and Extinct Birds is short but also a decent enough start for further reading and research on birds and on their general conservation status (although I am kind of shaking my head a bit at how inherently pro zoos Jennifer Boothroyd seems to be and that she basically tries to consider ALL zoos as supposedly being a positive and only ever protective of birds, which in my opinion really is not at all the case).
However, I really cannot and will not accept that throughout the entire text proper of Endangered and Extinct Birds Jennifer Boothroyd not even once considers and shows how feral domestic cats and even inside cats allowed to regularly roam outside by their owners can and do play havoc with wild bird populations (and in particular on islands, in areas where domestic cats are totally invasive species, where they have been artificially introduced by us, by humans, and where these felines quite often also have no natural occurring predators). And furthermore, as to some more textual issues I have encountered and been annoyed with in Endangered and Extinct Birds, for example with regard to the critical endangerment of the California Condor, it really does render me both frustrated and actually majorly upset that Jennifer Boothroyd fails to mention one of the main causes for this, namely condors being fatally poisoned by them consuming, eating stray lead bullets (almost as though the author does not want to offend hunting lobbies) and that while the Passenger Pidgeon was actually one of the most numerous birds on the planet, within less than thirty years, our greed and our desire for domination had made it extinct by 1915.
So yes, a bit more overt, a bit more strident condemnation and criticism in Endangered and Extinct Birds by the author, by Jennifer Boothroyd of how specific human behaviour patterns and actions have both over the centuries and recently caused many if not even most cases of birds becoming increasingly endangered and also extinct is in my opinion absolutely necessary (and this lack of specifics and that Jennifer Boothroyd is obviously not at all brave and forthright enough to tackle, to confront the dangers to and for birds posed by outside roaming domestic cats, and that stray lead bullets are a huge and horrible contribution to and for many bird species, and in particular for carrion eaters, this certainly does make me livid and to only consider recommending Endangered and Extinct Birds for the bibliography as everything else is rather lacking).
Sure, I am definitely verbally liking that Boothroyd’s presented information on why many species of birds are endangered and why some have actually become recently extinct clearly even if rather simplistically points out that many birds are endangered or have disappeared, have died out because of habitat destruction, over-hunting, pollution and the lucrative international pet trade. And yes, I also do appreciate Boothroyd letting her readers or listeners, letting children know that using too many chemicals, that littering can equally be quite harmful to and for birds, and indeed, the included bibliography for Endangered and Extinct Birds is short but also a decent enough start for further reading and research on birds and on their general conservation status (although I am kind of shaking my head a bit at how inherently pro zoos Jennifer Boothroyd seems to be and that she basically tries to consider ALL zoos as supposedly being a positive and only ever protective of birds, which in my opinion really is not at all the case).
However, I really cannot and will not accept that throughout the entire text proper of Endangered and Extinct Birds Jennifer Boothroyd not even once considers and shows how feral domestic cats and even inside cats allowed to regularly roam outside by their owners can and do play havoc with wild bird populations (and in particular on islands, in areas where domestic cats are totally invasive species, where they have been artificially introduced by us, by humans, and where these felines quite often also have no natural occurring predators). And furthermore, as to some more textual issues I have encountered and been annoyed with in Endangered and Extinct Birds, for example with regard to the critical endangerment of the California Condor, it really does render me both frustrated and actually majorly upset that Jennifer Boothroyd fails to mention one of the main causes for this, namely condors being fatally poisoned by them consuming, eating stray lead bullets (almost as though the author does not want to offend hunting lobbies) and that while the Passenger Pidgeon was actually one of the most numerous birds on the planet, within less than thirty years, our greed and our desire for domination had made it extinct by 1915.
So yes, a bit more overt, a bit more strident condemnation and criticism in Endangered and Extinct Birds by the author, by Jennifer Boothroyd of how specific human behaviour patterns and actions have both over the centuries and recently caused many if not even most cases of birds becoming increasingly endangered and also extinct is in my opinion absolutely necessary (and this lack of specifics and that Jennifer Boothroyd is obviously not at all brave and forthright enough to tackle, to confront the dangers to and for birds posed by outside roaming domestic cats, and that stray lead bullets are a huge and horrible contribution to and for many bird species, and in particular for carrion eaters, this certainly does make me livid and to only consider recommending Endangered and Extinct Birds for the bibliography as everything else is rather lacking).
May 4, 2014
Simple intro to endangered and extinct animals for primary readers with vibrant photographs and easy to read text.
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