HE ROSEATE SPOONBILLS WERE behaving inexplicably. The birds should have been nesting throughout Florida Bay, recovering from plume hunting, but as Robert Porter Allen noted, only a “pitifully small group” could be found. So in 1939 Audubon sent Allen, its director of: “Allen never did anything halfway; he spent most of the next three years living almost like a spoonbill.”
A Familiar Ring
Dec 19, 2022
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