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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. “I’d witnessed Peregrines and Gyrfalcons in the fall of 1949 while I was doing undergraduate work at the University of Alaska. Tom Cade and Gyr by Kate Davis.

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Lost Among the Birds: A Review of a Big Year Book

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And, the birds and birding trips to Arizona, Florida, California, the waters of North Carolina, and Alaska—always back to Alaska—start accumulating. Supporting characters like Jay Lehman and Chris Hitt, big year birders present and past, start making more frequent appearances.

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