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Happy Global Big Day from Costa Rica!

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Go to political rallies to get your emotions manipulated by potent, practiced con-artists? How can we say that magic is a farce when the May blossoms are backdropping bright, breeding plumaged Canadas , Magnolias , Chestnut-sideds , chocolate Bay-breasteds , and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks ? No, everyone should be out birding.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. Back to Lendrum–McWilliam interviews him. It would be nice to be there now.

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