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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. 2019), and now this book. The book is structured cinematically. Author Joshua Hammer.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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In providing this information, they quote extensively from an ornithology book that was published 3 years before I was born (and I am not a young man). Apparently, he was the first documented person to reach the peak of Mount Kinabalu.

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De arte venandi cum avibus: San Martino Siir (2015) – Aglianico del Vulture DOC

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Few hobbies place such value on the written knowledge contained in books as does birding. Birders cherish and hoard books above all other trappings of the pastime, and rather than relegating these tomes to the home library or study, they’re routinely carried out-of-doors as constant and dog-eared companions in field and forest.

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