Ever wondered what a pink-toed tarantula feels like after shedding its exoskeleton? Mr. Meiburg weaves a seamless narrative from the most diverse observations. Meiburg is equally skilled at evoking the challenging environment of the Falklands as he is at placing his readers in the midst of a teeming jungle in Guyana, home of the elusive red-throated caracara. Of course, simply as a natural history of the caracaras, A Most Remarkable Creature delivers splendidly, too. Meiburg usefully reminds us that the ancestors of caracaras roamed the skies well before anything resembling us had come along.
Meiburg’s vivid prose I sometimes fancied they just might be-this book would give them a lot of information about that exceptional creature named Jonathan Meiburg. If caracaras were able to read-and immersing myself in Mr. 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, and their possible futures. 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.Īlmost two centuries later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up the chase. These clever, fearless birds of prey stole hats and valuables from the crew of the Beagle, and they seemed unusually interested in humans. In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by a ‘mischievous’ animal he met in the Falklands: rare, crow-like falcons known today as striated caracaras. 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.
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