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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” But there are species here, like Trumpeter Swan and Snail Kite (called Everglade Kite), that are no longer considered endangered. The chapter also gives hope.