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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. Again, Cade led with solid evidence acquired through his own research. He came for the hawks. This was the world of Tom Cade early in the last century.

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Extinction Week on 10,000 Birds

10,000 Birds

They all went extinct since 1500 and they are only eight of the nearly two hundred species that have blinked out since then. Others are only known from a specimen or two sitting in the drawer of a research institution. Mauritius Night-Heron. Mauritius Owl. The eight species above still exist. Olson’s Petrel.

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