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Contemplating California Condors

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The newest bird on the brink to capture her fertile imagination is the California Condor, on which she graciously shares her research and ruminations: Sometimes as a writer you recognize there’s been something overlooked in your midst—something quietly abiding. Condors, like all New World vultures, can disturb the human psyche.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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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. And grow they did.

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Raimat Saira Albariño (2017)

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The brewery names each of its beers after endangered species of California’s Central Coast, including the California Gnatcatcher ( Polioptila californica ) and Scripp’s Murrelet ( Synthliboramphus scrippsi ).

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