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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life.

2011 243
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Best Bird of the Year for 2015

10,000 Birds

During my previous five trips to Indonesia, I only heard but never caught a glimpse of three species. This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. Hummingbirds are awesome!

2015 188