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“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 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.

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Having followed the musical and writing career of the author for quite some time, and having had the pleasure to meet and interact with a striated caracara named Sirius who is mentioned in these pages, I knew going in that this would be a very special book. I knew from his long-form writing for magazines that Meiburg is a generous, digressive author, and I wondered how wide-ranging this book’s topics would be.The answer is: very, but virtually always in service of the main themes of the book. Which, to be fair, are broad indeed. They range from the very specific (ten species of caracara, observed closely) to the more general (the much-neglected natural history of life on earth between the KT extinction and now) to the infinite and existential (what is consciousness? can humans survive half as long as the creatures we’ve made or are making extinct?).Meiburg’s attentive observations of the world around him meet his lyrical, but not over the top, authorial voice, and together they confront these giant questions. He may not have very many of the answers, but it’s hard to look at the world the same after reading this. In the light of this book’s enlarged understanding of the condition of life on earth, even the mass extinction we are driving, as horrific and emotionally scarring as it is, seems less final and less scary - even if we are some of the victims of the disaster in the end. One ponders the possibility of a chimango-descended archaeologist picking over some miraculously preserved version of this text, 100 million years hence, and saying, “oh, so that’s what happened.” Well, at least I do.

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