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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Twenty-five-year-old Luna Burke is risking everything to smuggle a homicidal Bald Eagle out of her husband’s private zoo in Florida, reunite the bird with its mate, and get them both to an eagle sanctuary in Canada. I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump.

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Want to Join Me at Space Coast?

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22 January 5:00AM-4:00PM – Central Florida Specialties: I’ve never led this trip before but I have visited pretty much everywhere it is going and had great luck in past years. I watched this Bald Eagle catch and eat a Blue-winged Teal at Viera a couple of years ago. So come on down to Florida in January!

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My Top Ten Birds of 2016 (or, Let’s Remember the Good Things about 2016)

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I started the year in Florida, traveled to India with the ABA in February, combined family and birding in an August trip to California, and in-between saw very good birds in New York and New Jersey. 1) Dusky Eagle-Owl. It was a good birding year. Many sad and unfortunate things occurred in 2016, but the birding was good.

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