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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

But every photo is clearly here for a reason, whether to show juvenile plumage or large egg clutches or illegal trapping (many of the images in the Challenges and Conservation chapter are from CABS, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter). I somehow knew right away that the bird I saw was a Wryneck. copyright © 2022 Gerard Gorman.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. And, in some weird coincidence that won’t be believed if it makes to the movie (there’s got to be a movie, right?), Simon & Schuster, February 2020, 336 pages.

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