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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). The authors note that while the baby bluebirds are intentionally portrayed as caricatures, the subject birds are carefully researched. Captive-bred parrots are released into the wild and eaten by hawks.