Counting the Wings

Red-winged blackbirds, 1960 Photo: Charley Harper

Mystery of the Missing Migrants, 1990 Photo: Charley Harper

Octoberama, 1999 Photo: Charley Harper

Cardinal, 1960 Photo: Charley Harper

Red-eyed vireo, 1959 Photo: Charley Harper

Eskimo curlew, 1957 Photo: Charley Harper

Water turkey, 1958 Photo: Charley Harper

Horned grebes, 1959 Photo: Charley Harper

House wren, 1959 Photo: Charley Harper

Green jay, 1956 Photo: Charley Harper

Baltimore oriole, 1959 Photo: Charley Harper

Mountain quail, 1956 Photo: Charley Harper

Purple gallinule, 1958 Photo: Charley Harper

Burrowing owl, 1960 Photo: Charley Harper

Wood thrush, 1960 Photo: Charley Harper

Limpkin, 1958 Photo: Charley Harper

Flamboyant feathers, 1974 Photo: Charley Harper

Charley Harper (left) and Todd Oldham Photo: Conn Brattain

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