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

10,000 Birds

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.

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The Passenger Pigeon & A Message From Martha: One Pigeon, Two Book Reviews

10,000 Birds

How many eggs did a pigeon lay? He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. This is not that kind of book, as Fuller makes clear from the beginning.

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Flying Dinosaurs: A Review by a Triceratops Fan

10,000 Birds

These fossils are seen as proof that some dinosaurs brooded over its eggs. And, he places current research within a framework of paleontological history of intrigue, backstabbing, and name-calling feuds. (No, Like birds. Don’t let the university press imprint deceive you. No collarbones! No feathers!

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