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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. Lendrum is charismatic and obsessed.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Credits: Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, Brazil, by Francesco Veronesi, used under Creative Commons license; Spangled Cotinga by Mathias Appel, Flickr, public domain. There are other questions though, and Johnson patiently teases them out. The Feather Thief is divided into four parts.