Even for a well-travelled ornithologist like Ma Ming, losing contact with a falcon was upsetting.
“It was like a little girl went missing on her way home from kindergarten,” the Chinese bird specialist said of the day Russian researchers told him they had stopped receiving signals from the big saker falcon they had been tracking for months.
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