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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil. Lendrum is charismatic and obsessed.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Britain & Ireland — A Review of the Book

10,000 Birds

Crossley has wisely positioned his series as an educational resource, to be used as much at home as in the field. The Introduction says there should be another visual index of representative species from each family on the inside front cover (similar to the Eastern Birds guide), but the inside front cover of my edition is blank.

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