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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

In the lower right-hand corner we see the partial figure of a bespectacled hiker. This plate is right at the center of the book. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). In 1967 only 24 parrots were living in El Yunque.

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The Grand Old Hawkwatch of the South

10,000 Birds

It’s 90% Broad-wings, paddle-shaped with crisp tail bands, but there are a handful of Sharp-shinned Hawks mixed in too, looking for all the world like the flying gavels described in every hawk-watching tome. I was leading a field trip with a dozen intrepid souls. And Caeaser’s Head is definitely good.