A Most Remarkable Creature av Jonathan Meiburg

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<p><b>An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet''s deep past in its family history.</b><br><br>In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by a ''mischievous'' animal he met in the Falklands: rare, crow-like falcons known today as striated caracaras. These clever, fearless birds of prey stole hats and valuables from the crew of the <i>Beagle</i>, and they seemed unusually interested in humans. Darwin couldn''t understand why they were confined to a set of remote islands; but he set this mystery aside, and never returned to it.<br><br>Almost two centuries later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up the chase. He travels through South America in search of striated caracaras and their close relatives, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of the Guiana Shield, and reveals the wild and surprising story of their origins, their keen and flexible minds, a