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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

The New York Times obituary cited the series (and Steiner’s other books, but it was the series that made money) as reshaping the publishing industry in the United States.**. The National Audubon Society Birds of North America covers all species seen in mainland United States, Canada and Baja California.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

Cade credited the 1965 Madison [Wisconsin] Peregrine Conference with further alerting him and many others to the plight of Peregrines and other birds of prey. ” By 1970 the man who championed Peregrines had convinced Cornell University to build a Hawk Barn for captive breeding of these birds. And grow they did.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. The imaginary scenario is clearly taken from eyewitness accounts, but sources are not footnoted.

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