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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). SeaGrove Press, July 2013. Special nesting boxes are built in the wild, a wild chick damages its wing in the nest, (it is rebuilt). Hurricane Hugo rips through the island in 1989. A second aviary is created.

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

10,000 Birds

First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career. by Charley Harper.

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The Grand Old Hawkwatch of the South

10,000 Birds

Hawkwatches on the northern half of the Appalachians get a lot of press. There’s Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, of course, and that little known Cape May place in New Jersey, not to mention others like Fort Smallwood in Maryland and even Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, which gets some press on the occasions that Corey swings by.