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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. But he tried, using the Craigheads’ techniques, and he learned from that young bird, and eventually many others along the way. Tom Cade, a quiet, down-to-earth ornithologist, more than once remarked that falconry is really just another form of bird watching.

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The man who saved species

10,000 Birds

His career began just before the extinctions and translocations at Big South Cape Island , when I have previously mentioned the modern age of conservation in New Zealand began, and continued beyond his retirement in 2005. It worked, and the translocated birds were soon breeding. But he did a great deal more in his life.

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