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#one of the ''conservationists'' in the book actually said ''we cant just follow a bird's full migration'' SINCE WHEN
sharkneto · 1 month
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How is Migrations rated that highly on Goodreads. Absolutely insufferable book, glad to be done with it.
#maybe its got good emotions going on idk#I couldn't get over how fucking bad the science in it was#wish the main character had been a real scientist instead of whatever the fuck franny had going on - which was /a lot/#less franny's emotionally disturbed problems more actual apocalypse of All The Animals Are Dying would have gone a long long way#man the longer i sit here thinking about it the madder i get#i would beg the author to have talked to actual animal and environmental scientists before she wrote whatever that was#''i random woman who longs for the sea is the only person who wants to follow these terns - some of the last birds on earth - on their--''#''--full migration and i have to beg to do it (but for my own personal selfish reasons and not actually for science or conservation)''#/in what fucking world/#one of the ''conservationists'' in the book actually said ''we cant just follow a bird's full migration'' SINCE WHEN#and they forced some fish-eating birds to eat seeds so theyd ''adapt'' and have a better chance to survive#and and mc's husband - a man with a phd in ornithology was like ''oh dont touch that bird egg or the bird will smell it and reject it!''#/it was a crow. it was an ///egg/// on the ground. it would have been /fine//#///he was a professor of ornithology and the author had him say that bullshit///#god im so curious if my twin will like this book or not#shes the one who was originally curious about it and i just happened to pick it up first#i am curious the reading experience if you are not someone who works directly with actual ornithologists#book club
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