Jonathan Meiburg
Autore di A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
Opere di Jonathan Meiburg
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1976-03-01
- Sesso
- male
- Luogo di nascita
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Texas, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Texas at Austin (MS|Geography)
University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee (Bachelor’s Degree|English, minor in Religion) - Agente
- Farley Chase (Chase Literary)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 228
- Popolarità
- #98,697
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 8
entertaining and educational book on the little-known striated caracara or "Johnny Rook" (related to an ancestor of falcons, but behaving like a strange hybrid of eagle/vulture/corvid) of the Faulkland Islands, and other caracara species, all of them extinct or endangered despite their remarkable intelligence and adaptability. Lots about evolution (and extinction events) as well as a few naturalists (relevant to these birds); an interesting epilogue provides evidence that caracaras may be showing up in the US and Canada.… (altro)