But when I went to one of the outer islands, I met these other birds that looked like a combination of a hawk and a crow and came right up to me and took a pen that I offered them and flew away with it. I had a vague notion that you might be able to see penguins there. And one of the places I went was the Falkland Islands. So I picked the most remote places I could think of as a 21-year-old person and went to them and lived there. And the project that I had pitched was a study of community life at the ends of the earth. You have to be on your own and you can't affiliate with an institution. And the only rule is that you can't come back. Watson Fellowship, which is a weird and wonderful program that funds students who've just left college to pursue a project that they designed themselves for a year in countries that they've never been to outside the United States. I had gone there as part of this fellowship called the Thomas J. When I met them in the Falklands in 1997, I wasn't interested in birds. On how the fascination with the caracara began Highlights from the interview with Jonathan Meiburg
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