Falcons Hunting Raised Rights 
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
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.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
His musings on falconry in Medieval times begin with the Bayeux Tapestry, which tells the story of the Norman Conquest and is full of birds, including hawks and falcons on the wrists of the main contenders. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2012
The maintenance man declared that his father was a falconer, and that he would take her home so he could care for her. On the other, she sounded like she might have a respiratory infection, I didn’t have the right drug on hand, and I was scared to death that I might go down in history as the killer of the birdie Methuselah.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2014
Must be a joke, right? Orange-breasted Falcon : Since there aren’t any specimens of this regal neotropical Falco from Costa Rica, we actually aren’t even sure if it used to live here. Hope for a vagrant comes in the form of an Orange-breasted Falcon sighting from west-central Panama. What a horror! What a disaster!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. North American Peregrine Falcons have also enjoyed an impressive population rebound in recent years. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
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.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2016
Looking like a blend of pigeon, grouse, and feathered marble cake, this fast flying species zips to the edge of a small sewage treatment pond in Eilat right at dusk pretty much every night. Raising $67,000 plus for conservation! : Yes, that really is a bird and it doesn’t have anything to do with a tiny country in Europe.
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