Instead of sighting a rarity for his new nieces first bird list, Bob White finds a murder of crows, along with the body of an old birding buddy, amid the October leaves at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Combining his search for a killer with his desire to add a rare Ferruginous Hawk to his own life list, Bob heads to Stevens County where a proposed wind farm project is stirring up a lot more than just dust. Again relying on his exceptional birding talents, Bob survives car collisions, student deceit, faculty intrigue, and even a hypnotist, to solve a deadly mysteryand unmask the true identity of a mysterious celebrity wrestler.