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The inside story of heroic efforts to save three bird species

The graft involved in trying to bring the peregrine falcon, Hawaiian crow and California condor back from the brink in the US makes for compelling reading in Feather Trails by Sophie Osborn

By Adam Weymouth

31 July 2024

ET6KG3 A Peregrine Falcon , Falco peregrinus, one of the worlds fastest birds

The peregrine falcon, the world’s fastest bird, is thriving again in North America – for now

MIKE WALKER/Alamy


Sophie A. H. Osborn (Chelsea Green)

Wildlife biologist Sophie Osborn has spent a career working with birds that have been a feather’s breadth from extinction in the US. Her new book, Feather Trails: A journey of discovery among endangered birds, focuses on the Hawaiian crow, the California condor and the peregrine falcon (also found globally). We have pushed them to the brink, and Osborn describes in painstaking detail the Herculean work to pull them back.

Two conflicting feelings arise…

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