Wildlife biologist Tina Morris was crouched behind a marsh with binoculars, anxiously watching a young bald eagle who had just left her care in a refuge, waiting to see whether the bird knew how to catch its own food. The eagle hopped from log to log. Then it jumped and dragged a fish up onto the log to eat it. Then and there Morris knew her entire project had been worth it. The eagles could survive.
In her new book Return to the Sky, Morris revisits her life working as a field biologist in the 1970s, in what was then a male-dominated sphere. But it was up to her to bring back the ...
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