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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California. 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.

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Lost Among the Birds: A Review of a Big Year Book

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At one point, Hayward, in San Diego for a pelagic that turns out to be cancelled and desperate for bird #700, must choose between a Curlew Sandpiper on Plum Island and a Blue-footed Booby in New Mexico. Note to self–next time you’re down or angry about dipping on a bird, think of Neil.)

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