
The Birds of Egypt and the Middle East
Kyle Pakka
Richard Hoath
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021.
“Nowhere else in the world can you stand and admire the representation of the falcon-headed god Horus, at Kom Ombo in the Nile Valley, for instance, only to find that a pair of the living bird, the Common Kestrel, is breeding on a masonry ledge in that same temple today.”
—From The Birds of Egypt and the Middle East
—KYLE PAKKA
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