MOST REMARKABLE CREATURE (WORLDS SMARTEST BIRD OF PREY) (PB)

In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were tame and inquisitive, quarrelsome and passionate, and so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Almost two hundred years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up the search for the striated caracara, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in a hybrid of science writing, travelogue, and biography.