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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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An old curator of birds at the Los Angeles County Museum encouraged me to visit the Alaskan territory as a place abundantly populated with these birds, because even then they were becoming rare and hard to obtain.” ” “What I found was that the falcon’s world moves about ten times faster than ours.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

10,000 Birds

The climatic changes set in motion by the Industrial Revolution are now proceeding at a pace far greater than many species and ecosystems can adapt to naturally. You can read more about the study at The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times , among others. Come back, click through, read, learn. And get angry and take action.

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