This is a series of catch-up blogs, of a trip to Senegal, Guinea and Mali in search of a small (180 gram) falcon that we hoped to bring back to the States for a scientific breeding project. I'll post a few places and pictures, recounting the 2-month adventure, to get y'all caught up, before moving on to the current one that begins on Christmas Day, 2007. We'll start off the tale in Indianapolis, Indiana. It has been a cold, wet, dreary winter, and I'm very much feeling the longing pangs; Africa is callling me back again. But I've given up all that wanderlust madness, I swear I have! Enter a call from a fellow falconer, and revisiting of a topic we covered a year or two before: trying to import some red-necked falcons (falco Chicquera) out
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