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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. Between 1974 and 2005, more than 7000 young Peregrines were hacked in the United States and Canada. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. She also has an abiding interest in important figures in natural history. And grow they did.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

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But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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” This lengthy essay was originally published in The New Yorker (“in somewhat different form,” as the “Credits” section says) in 2005 and can also be found in Franzen’s The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History (FSG, 2010). Press, 2011).