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Scarlet Experiment - Birds and Humans in America (Hardcover)
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Scarlet Experiment - Birds and Humans in America (Hardcover)
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Emily Dickinson's poem "Split the Lark" refers to the "scarlet
experiment" by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn
more about it. Indeed, humans have killed hundreds of millions of
birds-for science, fashion, curiosity, and myriad other reasons. In
the United States alone, seven species of birds are now extinct and
another ninety-three are endangered. Conversely, the U.S.
conservation movement has made bird-watching more popular than
ever, saving countless bird populations; and while the history of
actual physical human interaction with birds is complicated, our
long aesthetic and scientific interest in them is undeniable. Since
the beginning of the modern conservation movement in the
mid-nineteenth century, human understanding of and interaction with
birds has changed profoundly. In Scarlet Experiment, Jeff Karnicky
traces the ways in which birds have historically been seen as
beautiful creatures worthy of protection and study and yet subject
to experiments-scientific, literary, and governmental-that have
irrevocably altered their relationship with humans. This
examination of the management of bird life in America from the
nineteenth century to today, which focuses on six bird species,
finds that renderings of birds by such authors as Henry David
Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Don DeLillo, and Christopher Cokinos,
have also influenced public perceptions and actions. Scarlet
Experiment speculates about the effects our decisions will have on
the future of North American bird ecology.
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