The Tortured Beauty Of the Dry Tortugas; In the Isolated Islands West of Key West, Glimpses Of Nature in the Raw - And Memories of a Troubled Past From: The Washington Post | Date: October 11, 1992| Author: Richard Homan | Copyright 1992 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

One after another we came upon them - a half-dozen little piles of feathers and bits of flesh that, hours before, had been migrating cuckoos, trying to return to the North American mainland. Others, still alive but exhausted and near starvation, clung pathetically to the innermost branches of shrubs, trying to make themselves unnoticeable to the falcons and hawks perched in the treetops watching for the flash of movement that would signal the opportunity for another easy kill and meal.

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