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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.”

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

Mauritius Night-Heron. Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. Mauritius Owl. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. Olson’s Petrel. Viti Levu Scrubfowl. Maupiti Monarch.

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