Word: falcon
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Though birding is a hobby, watchers are quickly drawn toward environmental issues. DDT nearly wiped out the osprey and the peregrine falcon. On April 19, the last California condor was taken from the wild. "We have to convert interest in birds into backing for conservation," says Arnold Brown of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. "It's one thing to admire a loon and another to realize that it's our oldest bird, 70 million years old, and in trouble from acid rain...
Rowning settled down after the first inning and began to mow down the Falcon batters, yielding only three hits in the first seven innings while striking out seven...
...eighth Bentley finally broke through for a run against Rowning. With one out, Rowning walked Falcon hitter Patty Flanigan and Rowning's wild pitch moved the runner to second. The next batter, Vicki Westover, then doubled to give the Falcons their margin of victory...
Bentley scored two runs in both the third and fourth innings to take the lead. Two-out, extra-base hits drove in all four Falcon runs...
...light from the toy gun made it look as if a real pistol were being fired. "The deputy reacted as he had been trained to react," said City Manager Lauren M. Wasserman. "He had a hundredth of a second to make a decision." Said the boy's father Joseph Falcon, who had been uneasy about the toy guns: "Something has got to be done to warn people...