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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic.

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Grouse in PA, Grouse in Costa Rica

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One such surprising experience happened with grouse. In keeping with gamebird tradition, my first experience with grouse wasn’t one of a bird on a branch or something singing from a tree. Both can be a challenge and require patient Zen birding in the right places.

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The Birding Rally Challenge Peru 2012

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Raise global awareness of Peru’s potential as a top-notch birding destination whilst highlighting the need to conserve bird habitat across the country. the Forest Falcons – UK. A huge surprise was the addition of an entirely new species for Peru, a Black Swift , found by the Forest Falcons team. The Olympics.

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Close Encounters

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Situate across a small canyon carved by a steep stream it made for excellent viewing, at eye level right across the small chasm. It watched me, calmly, until I sat down about 7 feet away (almost at minimum focusing distance) and we both regarded each other, and I occasionally raised the camera and snapped off another frame.

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Plugging Kids Into Birding

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Reading to your kids before they go to bed is an easy and simple way to subtly put birding right into their sub-conscious. Birding with your children starts right in your backyard. They thoroughly enjoyed the experience, especially the live raptor display by well-known Master Falconer, Jonathan Wood. BIRD FEEDERS.

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Britain’s Birds: An Identification Guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland–A Book Review

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There are 28 chapters—“Waders,” “Large Waterside Birds,” “Owls and nightjars,” “Birds of prey” (pulling together vultures, hawks and falcons), “Aerial feeders” (swifts, swallows, martins), etc.—plus So, how do you find the species account for Kestrel if falcons are not placed between woodpeckers and parakeet?

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. The essays are arranged in almost AOS taxonomic order, with changes made to lessen confusion for new birders–falcons are grouped with hawks, all water birds come before land birds, etc.

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