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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

She explains complex and sometimes controversial topics including captive breeding, environmental toxins, feral cats and other invasive predators, Hawaiian avian extinction, avian disease, California Condor distribution and history, legal loopholes, and lead poisoning.

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The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago: Two Guides, One Book Review

10,000 Birds

Illustrations are from Restall’s Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide , and, according to the book’s publicity material, many have been “re-worked” and repainted for the new edition. The artwork in my edition of Birds of Northern South America is much more intense in color.

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Remotest Endemic Birds

10,000 Birds

Its numbers are declining rapidly due to feral cats and this duck is currently listed as vulnerable. Saint Helena Island, situated in the south Atlantic ocean between the continents of Africa and South America, is one of the remotest inhabited islands in the world. Eaton’s Pintail by N.

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