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Business Birding Basics – part II

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His collection was impressive and overwhelmingly illegal so he will remain unnamed too. He did know all the little roads in the area and as he wasn’t a trapper but a breeder we asked him to show us the way. We were introduced to a local specialist, but this gentleman turned out to be interested in caged birds. They are that good.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

He traveled to the United Kingdom, the Rhondda Valley in Wales, Zimbabwe, Chilean Patagonia, and Dubai. He interviews breeders about rumors of raptor trafficking and egg smuggling, activities that have supposedly been stopped. But, it is the sections about Lendrum that crackle with the tension of truth that is weirder than fiction.

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