Peregrine Falcon : Stories of the Blue Meanie /
A superb success as a bird, combining great speed, aeronautical grace, and fearlessness.inhabitant of wild places, inaccessible cliffs, and skyscrapers.worldwide dweller, trans-equatorial migrant, and docile captive-the peregrine falcon stands alone among all others of its kind. Perhaps this is why...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. The Nature of the Falcon
- II. My Early Searches
- III. First Wild Peregrines
- IV. First Surveys
- V. Disaster Decade
- VI. Big River
- VII. Northern Peregrines
- VIII. Falcons on the Beach
- IX. Early Falconry in North America
- X. The Timely Invention of Peregrine Husbandry
- XI. Searches in Far Places
- XII. Peregrines Regain the Skies
- XIII. The Better-Known Meanie
- XIV. Peregrines and People
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index