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Parts Unknown: A Naturalist's Journey in Search of Birds and Wild Places by Tim Gallagher

Author of Wild Bird Photography and editor of The Living Bird, the excellent quarterly of Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology, Gallagher has a special affinity for the Arctic and hawks. This volume is concerned with exotic locales such as India, Iceland, Greenland, northern Manitoba, and Alberta, and the birds of those regions. However, Gallagher also writes of the wildness found in our own backyards New Jersey, coastal Texas, and Southern California and of tracking the sounds birds make when they fly overhead at night, which is the manner in which most migrate. This evocative book is presented in three parts: "Parts Unknown" (exotic places), "Rare Raptors" (condors, falcons, eagles, and hawks), and "Birding and Ornithology" (a potpourri the Everglades, birding marathons, wildlife law enforcement, Santa Catalina Island, etc.). Delightful, informed reading with excellent photographs; highly recommended for all wildlife collections.