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10,000 Birds

And while I definitely consider myself more of a writer than a wildlife photographer, for once I have enough good photos to let my pictures do most of the talking. As I learned this week, locals cook the unripe fruit into meat dishes, and eat the ripe fruit raw… as do birds!

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.” ” Many of these images were new to me; with the exception of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, I don’t think they have been heavily mined for notecards or fabric.