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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

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Osborn, a passionate field biologist who participates to the core of her being three re-introduction projects aimed at saving three very different, endangered species: Peregrine Falcon, Hawaiian Crow (‘Alala)*, and California Condor. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.

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Contemplating California Condors

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The newest bird on the brink to capture her fertile imagination is the California Condor, on which she graciously shares her research and ruminations: Sometimes as a writer you recognize there’s been something overlooked in your midst—something quietly abiding. My first view of them was at a distance.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. Again, Cade led with solid evidence acquired through his own research. He was the founder of both and a devoted keeper of the spirit of threatened raptors the world over, including the California Condor , which also underwent captivity in order to survive.

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Common Moorhens at Hannover Zoo

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People who enjoy California Condors will also enjoy baby moorhens. A foraging Common Moorhen has me thinking that in spite of recent research, not all birds are particularly bright. City slicker needs no reeds.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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I am particularly happy to see that the bird communication section includes recent research on singing female birds. There are several species, such as California Condor, for which new material had to be written (California Condor is called “nearly extinct” in the older title and not included).

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The Traveling Birder

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I’ve also been on pelagic birding trips on both coasts, out of Half Moon Bay and Monterey, California; Newport, Oregon; and Hatteras, North Carolina. I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel.

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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A recent study of a multiyear, peer-reviewed research project, conducted in Texas, indicate dove hunters using shotshells loaded with lead pellets enjoy no advantage in effectiveness over those using shotshells firing non-toxic steel pellets of similar or slightly larger size.

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