{"id":8676,"date":"2014-06-02T04:06:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2014-06-01T12:17:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T19:17:52","slug":"millinery-coffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/02\/millinery-coffins\/","title":{"rendered":"Millinery Coffins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On June 2, 1900, Frank Chapman “startled” his audience<\/a> at the annual meeting of the New York State Audubon Society. In his lecture, which — still a novelty at the time — was illustrated with photographs, Chapman, cold man of science that he was, pushed as many rhetorical hot buttons as he could, citing, for example,<\/p>\n

a shipload of ten tons of the\u00a0willow grouse\u00a0<\/strong>wings, the birds killed for the plumage…. [hawks and vultures] were trapped … the feathers pulled out, and then they were let go, but unable to fly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On a single winter afternoon in Virginia, plumers “destroyed” 1400\u00a0gulls, their snowy breasts destined to ornament hats. “Is it fair,” Chapman concluded, “to deprive a beautiful bird of its life to make a hat like that?”<\/p>\n

And the women in the audience clapped heartily to show their disapproval of millinery coffins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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On June 2, 1900, Frank Chapman “startled” his audience at the annual meeting of the New York State Audubon Society. In his lecture, which — still a novelty at the time — was illustrated with photographs, Chapman, cold man of science that he was, pushed as many rhetorical hot buttons as he could, citing, for … <\/p>\n

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