![]() ![]() We even travel to the UK, where a number of caracaras have been (and still are) held captive.Ī note: I wished the author had taken a critical tone toward the practice of using birds for entertainment, the only sections of the book I found off-putting.Īnd I suspect William Henry Hudson would agree. Then we climb the mountains of Chile, travel upriver into the forests of French Guyana. We begin in the Falklands where we live among researchers and meet the striated caracara. ![]() ![]() There are about ten species of caracara and Meiburg takes us around the world to seek them out. In A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey Jonathan Meiburg has crafted an epic ode to the caracara, a long-overlooked (and often derided) group of birds who deserves more attention and more protection. A striated caracara (with a rockhopper penguin in the background). ![]()
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