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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. I ended up looking for photographs of Peregrine hack sites, captive breeding aviaries, Hawaii tropical forest, and the California Condors of the Grand Canyon on the Internet.

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Puffin Trip in Maine

10,000 Birds

For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. They were reintroduced to Eastern Egg Rock starting in 1973 , with over a thousand young transported from Canada over several years. A legless guillemot?

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