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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Meanwhile, forts were built to protect the island from invaders, war broke out between Spain and the United States, and the island became a U.S. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Hurricane Hugo rips through the island in 1989.

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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? I write ‘focus-on-the-birds’ because it is highly probable that Harper had drawn birds before, but not in a highly focused manner that involved research, which he engaged in very seriously, and observation of bird behavior.