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...fresh attention to Rembrandt's paintings. The National Gallery of London in 1960 demoted three of its then 21 Rembrandts to the status of "attributed to" or "school of." The National Gallery of Washington, which currently has 24 Rembrandts, two years ago relabeled its Old Woman Plucking a Fowl as "Rembrandt-Upper part of figure repainted by a later hand...
John Holme (1686) Hunters like to dream of what it must have been like in the old days, when herds of buffalo grazed the Western plains, when virgin glades were thick with elk and wild fowl. Game, they complain, is disappearing in the face of pollution, deforestation-and competition from the 17,999,999 other Nim-rods out there blazing away...
...Wild fowl have been even more prolific. Although hunters bagged 3,000,000 mourning doves in California last year, the birds now number 20 million, up 50% in 50 years. Even the wild turkey, wariest of all game birds-and therefore one of the first harmed by the shrinking wilderness-is making a comeback: Pennsylvania's turkey flock alone is estimated...
...annual total of aircraft-bird collisions now exceeds 1,600, some of them resulting in injuries and even fatal crashes. The Air Force alone estimates that it spends about $5,000,000 per year to repair aircraft surfaces battered or even pierced by the high-velocity impact of large fowl; it costs another $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 to repair or replace jet engines that have been damaged by ingested birds. But scientific help is on the way for aircraft-as well as for the birds, which fare even worse in aerial collisions...
...long-nosed bandicoot? Or the brolgas, which break into a wild, wing-flapping dance at the sound of a bell? How about the racquet-tailed drongo, and the mudskipper, a hippopotamus-shaped fish that likes to skitter across mud flats and climb mangrove roots? Or the mallee fowl, which assiduously builds an incubator for its eggs and keeps the temperature inside at a steady 95°, come rain or shine? Curious specimens these, but Naturalist Gerald Durrell is only reporting what he sees, and reporting it with grace and an infectious sense of wonderment...