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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. If this is true, then does each separate evolutionary “event&# have a separate set of mechanisms backing it up? Those two questions are not mutually exclusive. Why migrate?

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