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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

10,000 Birds

Yet she inures herself to being part of the bird of prey’s intense hunting drive (“yarak” is the term for it) and to such requisites of the sport as providing quail — “innocent and appealing” in their cages — for hunting targets, and the hearts and heads of baby chickens for feed.

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A Brief Interview with Greg Miller

10,000 Birds

When I upped my goal to some insane stratospheric level in June, going back to find things like Lesser Prairie-Chicken (which I missed) became more problematic. Bicknell’s Thrush is a bird that is important to me because I grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains, one of the places that it breeds.