By Stanley H. Anderson,John R. Squires
ISBN-10: 0292704739
ISBN-13: 9780292704732
ISBN-10: 0292704747
ISBN-13: 9780292704749
"This publication explores a fabulous, complicated chicken that has no longer been provided the advantage of a unmarried quantity therapy. The authors have a extensive take hold of in their topic and are good versed within the literature on the subject of birds of prey commonly and Prairie Falcons specifically."
—Pete Dunne, writer of More stories of a Low-Rent Birder
Skillful hunters appealing in flight, Prairie Falcons inhabit the rocky cliffs of the yank West. those raptors variety from southern Canada and northern North Dakota to Baja California, Arizona, New Mexico, western and northerly Texas, and southeastern Coahuila, Mexico.
this can be the 1st ebook for a large viewers committed solely to the Prairie Falcon. Stanley Anderson and John Squires hide all features of the falcon's lifestyles historical past from mating and rearing younger to searching behaviors and the annual migration cycle. they supply entire descriptive features for picking out Prairie Falcons and in addition evaluate them to different raptors, specially the heavily similar Peregrine Falcon.
moreover, the authors recount the lengthy organization of falcons with humans, which could expand again so far as 2000 BC. They describe the perform of falconry from the center a while until eventually at the present time. and so they examine the threats to Prairie Falcons posed by way of human actions, from pesticide use and destruction of habitat to disruption of the breeding cycle by means of careless birdwatchers.
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