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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. It was advisable to remove them at night, to keep them calm, to establish immediately a feeding board on which they would be fed chopped beef and egg to start, then fresh birds, rabbit or squirrel. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds.

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The Traveling Birder

10,000 Birds

Another is California Condor in the Grand Canyon.). My current criteria for a dedicated birding trip are having a good probability of seeing several new birds or seeing a birding spectacle ( e.g. , Red Knots and other shorebirds feasting on horseshoe crab eggs in Delaware Bay). Nome, Alaska.