Last month, I was blissfully wandering my Inverness neighborhood, a mixed woodland flush with towering redwood, oak and laurel trees. But what began as an uneventful outing morphed into one of those once-in-a blue-moon days for birders as I found myself in the presence of two magnificent species.
These two raptors happen to be in the crosshairs of an ongoing debate in the scientific community that may reshape the future of wildlife management. It…