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Book Synopsis High Flying Gyrfalcons by : Victor Hardaswick
Download or read book High Flying Gyrfalcons written by Victor Hardaswick and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book for falconers that details the practices and principles of training the Gyrfalcon to achieve lofty pitches and hunt wild quarry with great success. These two writers have solved, and committed to writing, the necessary steps to produce a high-flying Gyrfalcon that is supremely adjusted to life with a falconer.
Download or read book The Gyrfalcon written by Eugene Potapov and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY'S 'BEST SCIENCE BOOK 2006' AWARD This book is the first monograph on one of the most beautiful and admired birds in the world. The Gyrfalcon is the world's largest and most powerful falcon - a truly awe-inspiring bird which inhabits the ferociously inhospitable Arctic taiga, from Greenland and Iceland right across Siberia and northern Canada. Its plumage varies from a dark mottled grey to pure white - the white birds in particular are coveted by birders and falconers. Like other titles in the series, it covers all aspects of the species' biology, taxonomy, distribution, status and historical associations with mankind. The result is an exhaustively researched and enthrallingly readable biography of a spectacular bird, illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings.
Download or read book Gyrfalcon written by Norman Barichello and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gyrfalcons and humans have shared a remarkable relationship since prehistoric times. These extraordinary arctic falcons have been revered, coveted as an item of commerce, persecuted, and enjoyed as a spectacle of sport for at least ten thousand years. Today, climate change has brought new challenges, with habitat in the far north changing rapidly as natural cycles begin to break down. Drawn from over thirty years of study and observation, this in-depth study provides a comprehensive view of the gyrfalcon’s place in the arctic ecosystem, including their inextricable link to their primary pray, the ptarmigan, and their antagonistic relationship with golden eagles. It explores the connection the bird has had with humanity in both legend and practice, and the challenges it faces as its habitat continues to change. This definitive look at the gyrfalcon shows us both sides of the majestic bird: the master of its domain and a threatened species facing an uncertain future.
Download or read book Gyrfalcon written by Emma Ford and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gyr is the largest, fastest and arguably the most beautiful falcon in the world. For centuries man has been driven to acquire live specimens from their Arctic territory for sport and even as currency. This is a study of the species, using drawings, sketches, paintings and photographs. The author examines the gyrfalcon's role in natural history, its place in literature and its long-established use in falconry.
Book Synopsis Gyrfalcon, Falco Rusticolus L. by : Carol Snow
Download or read book Gyrfalcon, Falco Rusticolus L. written by Carol Snow and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ospreys in Falconry by : Kaky McLendon
Download or read book Ospreys in Falconry written by Kaky McLendon and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ospreys in Falconry: Lessons Learned is a book detailing one falconer's attempts at keeping ospreys healthy and flying them as successful falconry birds. After experience with several birds, the authors describe husbandry and falconry training techniques which are tailored specifically for ospreys--a bird with a reputation for being difficult to care for and impossible to succeed with as a falconer's hunting partner. Well, fishing partner.
Book Synopsis Icelandic Trade with Gyrfalcons by : Sigurdur Aegisson
Download or read book Icelandic Trade with Gyrfalcons written by Sigurdur Aegisson and published by Sigurdur Aegisson. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gyrfalcon is the largest falcon in the world and the most northern diurnal raptor, a swift bird of majestic appearance. It hunts in a variety of ways, but one characteristic, more than any other, its climbing ability - that is, flying straight up at a steep angle, often making only one turn before it has gained ascendancy over its intended prey - made the bird a favourite in times past, especially when hunting for large, high flying quarry. Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald de Barry), in his book, De Arte Venandi cum Avibus (Art of Falconry), which is assigned to the last part of his life, c. 1241-1250, and took 30 years to compile, distils the knowledge of falconry of many cultures, and immediately became one of the basic sources of reference dealing with the subject. In one place it states: "Gerfalcons are fledged in or near the most distant parts of the seventh climatic zone ... Some of them are brooded on the high cliffs of the Hyperborean territory, particularly on a certain island lying between Norway and Greenland, called in Teutonic speech Iceland ("Yslandia") ... These falcons are the best birds for hunting." This is their story, from medieval times to the modern era. It is not certain when the export of gyrfalcons from Iceland began but there is some evidence to suggest that it may have been around the year 950. The Icelanders of these far-off times probably knew, by their association with foreigners, that important personages in England, France, Germany and even further afield, found these birds highly desirable, possibly making gyrfalcons a valuable trading commodity - if they had not known this before. The German historian Klaus Friedland has very interesting information about these matters, e.g. how big a role the export of gyrfalcons played in the Icelandic economy of these days of yore. He says: "The trade in Icelandic hawks could be perceived as relevant only to the pleasures of the courts, and not to the penetration of the North. This would be only half the truth. Hawks, tercels, formales - and whatever else they were called in the late Middle Ages - are an indication of the approximate value of goods imported to Iceland, i.e. flour, timber, and wax. As these goods are mentioned fairly often in the literature of medieval economic history, without sufficient information concerning trade routes and destination, they are not a clear indication of the average demand for staple imports of the Iceland settlers. Hawks, on the other hand, provide such indications. The price for 12 hawks ... was nearly 350 aurei; this was the value of approximately 50 tons of cereal grains, which would mean the livelihood of 100-200 people a year. Given that the 12-falcon duty was only a part of the annual Lubeck hawk import total, and given that the Lubeckers were not the only Hanseatic merchants who traded in Icelandic hawks, it appears that a considerable proportion of the Icelandic population secured their livelihood by importing food on the Hanse trade route.""
Download or read book The Falcon Thief written by Joshua Hammer and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “well-written, engaging detective story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a “vivid tale of obsession and international derring-do” (Publishers Weekly), following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent on protecting the world’s birds of prey. “Masterfully constructed” (The New York Times) and “entertaining and illuminating” (The Washington Post), The Falcon Thief will whisk you away from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.
Book Synopsis The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors by : Richard Crossley
Download or read book The Crossley ID Guide: Raptors written by Richard Crossley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... This book changes field guide design to make you a better birder ... The most comprehensive guide : 640 stunning scenes created from 10,000 of the author's photographs ... Lifelike in-focus scenes show birds in their habitats ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Book Synopsis San Joaquin Kit Fox, Vulpes Macrotis Mutica by : Carol Snow
Download or read book San Joaquin Kit Fox, Vulpes Macrotis Mutica written by Carol Snow and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Off the Grid written by C. J. Box and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now streaming on Paramount+ The Red Desert of Wyoming is a beautiful and punishing place for anybody, even for game warden Joe Pickett and his friend Nate Romanowski in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller... Nate is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and trying to deal with past crimes, when he is suddenly surrounded by a small team of elite professional special operators. They’re not there to threaten him, but to make a deal. They need help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming’s Red Desert, and in return they’ll make Nate’s criminal record disappear. But they are not what they seem, as Nate’s friend Joe Pickett discovers. They have a much different plan in mind, and it just might be something that takes them all down—including Nate and Joe.
Book Synopsis Hunting Tactics of Peregrines and Other Falcons by : Dick Dekker
Download or read book Hunting Tactics of Peregrines and Other Falcons written by Dick Dekker and published by Hancock House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the foraging habits and capture rates of four species of bird-hunting falcons; Peregrine, Merlin, Gyrfalcon, and Prairie Falcon. Eight of the nine study areas were situated in western Canada in widely different habitats, and the observation periods intermittently included all seasons over 44 years, 1965-2008.
Book Synopsis Lives of North American Birds by : Kenn Kaufman
Download or read book Lives of North American Birds written by Kenn Kaufman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling natural history of birds, lavishly illustrated with 600 colorphotos, is now available for the first time in flexi binding.
Download or read book Falcon Wild written by Terry Lynn Johnson and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed, contemporary novel about surviving in the wilderness. Thirteen-year-old Karma is desperate to become a certified falconer. At her dad's bird education center, she helps give demonstrations to guests and can fly the birds. But when her favorite rescued falcon, Stark, hurts Karma, her parents insist that they return the bird to its previous owner--in Canada. On the way to bring Stark back, a car accident in the middle of nowhere leaves Karma's dad trapped, and it's up to Karma to find a way to rescue him and her younger brother. When Karma loses her way trying to get help, she crosses paths with Cooper, a troubled teenaged boy. Lost for three days, the two figure out how to survive, and Karma teaches Stark to hunt like an actual bird of prey. Karma may be closer than she thinks to becoming a real falconer and having a real friend.
Book Synopsis The Art of Falconry by : Patrick Morel
Download or read book The Art of Falconry written by Patrick Morel and published by Medina Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the fundamentals of breeding, method and equipment it expands to look at Falconry throughout the world, including the Arab States and the USA.
Book Synopsis The Living Wilderness by : Robert Sterling Yard
Download or read book The Living Wilderness written by Robert Sterling Yard and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Fascination with Falcons by : William A. Burnham
Download or read book A Fascination with Falcons written by William A. Burnham and published by Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of falcons from the Arctic to the Topics and the relationship and understanding gained from them through falconry has provided me with countless opportunities for learning and, occasionally, for adventure. These pages combine biological information about falcons of the Americas and our natural world with stories and events from my field notes and memory. Memories are interesting things. They are life's mental streams and rivers which pool and flow, eventually becoming reservoirs of conscious and subconscious thought. Streams of events and experiences merge to become rivers of associated topics and places, creating lakes and, through time, oceans of memories, knowledge, and, possibly, wisdom. Like a stone tossed into a pool, an event or thought can cause ripples that bring memories of past experiences and emotions to the surface. For some of us, with age, boulders - not stones - are required. The streams and rivers have a few logjams and waterfalls, and sometimes the lakes have more suckers that trout. The real-life experiences reported here are primarily from my early years as a biologist and falconer. I wanted to fish those memories out first, before the water dries up or they are lost in tomorrows. The chapters and sections of the book are arranged geographically and topically, but not necessarily chronologically. After a brief introduction to the true falcons and my fascination with the, the reader travels - as the compass points - north to Greenland. Then moving south, that portion pertaining to falconry is focused in temperate western North America. Experiences with tropical falcons follow, with the final chapter on conservation of falcons, wildlife, and nature. There is also a section suggesting how people can make a positive difference. Finally, I provide more detailed information on the biology and ecology of falcons in a straight-forward manner as an appendix. The information is factual, and is based on my understanding and research. Some stories are humorous (I hope), others are of adventures (and misadventures) as I might recount them to my peers over a drink or around the camp fire. So pull up a chair or a log. A few names may be familiar, but most will not be. The names of people are not changed to protect the innocent, as there are none. We must all be guilty of something - if nothing else, possibly of caring about nature. I hope that in these pages the reader will gain some expanded appreciation of nature and a general understanding of falcons and why men and women have admired, studied, and enjoyed them for millennia. A further reward for the investment of time and thought will be any enjoyment this book bay bring to those who honor me by their reading.
