America Research Rights Tail Banding 
10,000 Birds
JULY 1, 2014
In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). In 1967 only 24 parrots were living in El Yunque.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
I write ‘focus-on-the-birds’ because it is highly probable that Harper had drawn birds before, but not in a highly focused manner that involved research, which he engaged in very seriously, and observation of bird behavior. A tradition was born. The text is light on whimsey, but Harper doesn’t shy away from irony.
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