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A Wing and a Prayer
- The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population.
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For the past year, veteran journalists Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal traveled more than 25,000 miles across the Americas, chronicling costly experiments, contentious politics, and new technologies to save our beloved birds from the brink of extinction. Through this compelling drama, A Wing and a Prayer offers hope and an urgent call to action: Birds are dying at an unprecedented pace. But there are encouraging breakthroughs across the hemisphere and still time to change course, if we act quickly.
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