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By Damian Da Costa 8/20/08 4:13pm

In Defense of Pigeons

Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan … and the World
By Courtney Humphries
Smithsonian, 196 pages, $24.95

Writing teachers always say that a crucial element of the craft is to know your audience. Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan … And the World is a cultural, historical and biological study of the timeless human-pigeon relationship, Read More

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