Word: birdman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...falcon, rather than pursued his studies on how best to preserve the birds, he would have faced lesser penalties. Peters, who is filing for a reduced sentence, says he will study the work of other raptor experts while confined in Leavenworth, which happens to be where the famous Birdman of Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, first began assembling his aviary in 1920 and wrote his digest on the diseases of birds...
...memorable January day near Point Reyes, Calif., Vardaman sighted 111 different varieties. Every two weeks he mailed out a newsletter to 1,150 "birders," as the devotees call themselves, asking them to call him collect with news of rare species in their regions ("Ask for Birdman"). He hired planes and boats and bushwacked through the woods of northern Minnesota. He flew to Alaska four times and spent 14 days on Attu, a bleak island in the Aleutians, where he saw the green sandpiper. On July 27 he surpassed the previous one-year record by spotting bird No. 658, an American...