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In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social and oddly crow-like falcons so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it. Almost 200 years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. He brings us through South America, from the coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in search of these birds: striated caracaras, which still exist, though they’re very rare. He reveals the wild, fascinating story of their history, origins and possible futures. And along the way, he introduces the life and work of William Henry Hudson, the Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world, and to falconry parks in the English countryside, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving.

• 6.05” W x 9.16” H x 0.8” D
• Written by Jonathan Meiburg
• Publisher: Penguin Random House
• 400 pages