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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

Is there a birder in the United States who is not familiar with the art of Charley Harper? ” In some cases, the bird’s path to extinction is stated in haunting brevity. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”