A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey By: Jonathan Meiburg [Audiobook]

Author: Jonathan Meiburg
Narrated by: Jonathan Meiburg

“A fascinating, entertaining, and totally engrossing story.” (David Sibley, author of What It’s Like to Be a Bird)

“Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart, curious, and social, it boggles the mind.” (Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Bird Way)

“As curious, wide-ranging, gregarious, and intelligent as its subject.” (Charles C. Mann, author of 1491)

An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet’s deep past in their family history.

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. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it.

Almost 200 years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. He takes us through South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in search of these birds: striated caracaras, which still exist, though they’re very rare. He reveals the wild, fascinating story of their history, origins, and possible futures. And along the way, he draws us into the life and work of William Henry Hudson, the Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world, and to falconry parks in the English countryside, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving. A Most Remarkable Creature is a hybrid of science writing, travelogue, and biography, as generous and accessible as it is sophisticated, and absolutely riveting.

General Information
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Title:   A Most Remarkable Creature
Subtitle:   The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
Author:   Jonathan Meiburg
Narrator:   Jonathan Meiburg
Audiobook Copyright:   2021-03-30
Publisher:   Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Duration:   9 hrs 56 mins
ISBN:   9780593349014
Subjects:   Biography & Autobiography, History, Nature, Nonfiction
File Information
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Media Format:   MP3
Total Files:   9
Total Size:   271 MB
Bitrate:   64 kbps
Sample Rate:   44.1 kHz
Channels:   Stereo
Book Description
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A fascinating, entertaining, and totally engrossing story.David
Sibley, author ofWhat It's Like to Be a Bird
Utterly captivating and beautifully written, this book is a hugely
entertaining and enlightening exploration of a bird so wickedly smart,
curious, and social, it boggles the mind.Jennifer Ackerman, author
ofThe Bird Way
As curious, wide-ranging, gregarious, and intelligent as its
subject.Charles C. Mann, author of1491
An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet the
clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin,
fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep
past in their family history.
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. Darwin wondered why these birds
were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a
larger story, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it.
Almost two hundred years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase.
He takes us through South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra
del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in search of these birds:
striated caracaras, which still exist, though they're very rare. He
reveals the wild, fascinating story of their history, origins, and
possible futures. And along the way, he draws us into the life and
work of William Henry Hudson, the Victorian writer and naturalist who
championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world, and to
falconry parks in the English countryside, where captive caracaras
perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving. A Most
Remarkable Creature is a hybrid of science writing, travelogue, and
biography, as generous and accessible as it is sophisticated, and
absolutely riveting.

492K	A Most Remarkable Creature - 001 - A Most Remarkable Creature The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey.mp3
216K	A Most Remarkable Creature - 002 - Dedication.mp3
204K	A Most Remarkable Creature - 003 - Epigraph.mp3
364K	A Most Remarkable Creature - 004 - Part I Flying Monkeys.mp3
9.1M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 005 - Chapter 1 An Unanswered Question.mp3
14M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 006 - Chapter 2 Johnny Rooks.mp3
12M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 007 - Chapter 3 A Half-Tamed Hawk.mp3
11M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 008 - Chapter 4 The Birth of a Naturalist.mp3
11M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 009 - Chapter 5 The Most Intelligent Bird in the World.mp3
13M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 010 - Chapter 6 The Court of the Penguin King.mp3
380K	A Most Remarkable Creature - 011 - Part II Far Away and Long Ago.mp3
13M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 012 - Chapter 7 In the Wake of the Dinosaurs.mp3
17M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 013 - Chapter 8 A Family Secret.mp3
15M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 014 - Chapter 9 The Curious Case of the Missing Crows.mp3
13M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 015 - Chapter 10 The Island of Giants.mp3
360K	A Most Remarkable Creature - 016 - Part III Green Mansions.mp3
11M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 017 - Chapter 11 Bush Auntie-Man.mp3
11M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 018 - Chapter 12 Hymenopteran Dreams.mp3
13M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 019 - Chapter 13 The Lost World.mp3
20M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 020 - Chapter 14 Sweet Fishes to Eat.mp3
36M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 021 - Chapter 15 Above the Falls.mp3
380K	A Most Remarkable Creature - 022 - Part IV Between the Sky and the Sea.mp3
7.9M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 023 - Chapter 16 Last Days of the Guadalupe Caracara.mp3
15M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 024 - Chapter 17 The Mysterious Falcon of Manco Capac.mp3
16M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 025 - Chapter 18 A New Career in a New Town.mp3
12M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 026 - Chapter 19 Land's End.mp3
9.3M	A Most Remarkable Creature - 027 - Epilogue Return of the Mexican Eagle.mp3
756K	A Most Remarkable Creature - 028 - Credits.mp3
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