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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? photo by Cyndi Routledge He called the Platte wetlands restoration project “a crown jewel for Nebraska.” Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism. Thank you for your efforts.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

10,000 Birds

She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. .”