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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

His goal, he says in the Preface, is to fulfill a childhood desire to learn more about a stern figure in a family photograph, a mysterious man with impressive but largely undocumented achievements. A great-great nephew of Senator McLean, Greeley spent three years researching and writing this book. But this is not a hagiography.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 4)

10,000 Birds

The Black-faced Monarch is a relative in the same bird family, the Monarchidae. The Masked Lapwing has its own small brochure edited by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau as it apparently is a risk at airports – the species likes short grass and defends its territory aggressively, possibly even against large aircraft.

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