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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

such as California Condors and Passenger Pigeons. Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Author Sherrida Woodley thinks deeply about dearly departed birds. He came for the hawks.

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

10,000 Birds

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. There are several species, such as California Condor, for which new material had to be written (California Condor is called “nearly extinct” in the older title and not included).