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PEREGRINE FALCON POPULATIONS

Their management and recovery

Edited by Tom J Cade,James H Enderson,Carl G.Thelander,and Clayton M.White

map"The Peregrine Falcon is,perhaps,the most highly specialized and superlatively well developed flying organism on our planet today,combining in a marvelous degree the highest powers of speed and aerial adroitness with massive,warlike strength.A powerful,wild,majestic,independent bird,living on the chicest of clean,carnal food,plucked fresh from the air or the surface of the waters,rearing its young in the nooks of dangerous mountain cliffs,claiming all the atmosphere as its domain and fearing neither beast that walks nor bird that flies,it is the very embodiment of noble rapacity and lonely freedom.It has its legitimate and important place in the great scheme of things,and by its extinction,if that should ever come,the whole world would be impoverished and dulled" - G.H.Thayer,1904

Hardback;949pp.Black & white photos,sketches,maps,charts,tables etc.A massive work and a must for anyone with a keen interest in Peregrine Falcons.Condition fine in d/w £50.00

*Also see 'The Peregrine' Derek Ratcliffe

*Winged Thunderbolt (the story of a peregrine) G.D Adams

The Peregrine

J.A Baker

'To be recognised and accepted by a Peregrine you must wear the same clothes,travel the same way,perform the same actions in the same order.Enter and leave the same fields at the same time each day,soothe the hawk by a ritual of behaviour as invariable as its own.Hood the glare of the eyes,hide the white tremour of the hands,shade the stark reflecting face,assume the stillness of a tree.Be alone.Shun the furtive oddity of man,cringe from the hostile eyes of farms.Learn to fear.'I saw my first Peregrine on a December day on the Estuary 10 years ago.The sun reddened out the white river mist,fields glittered with rime,boats were encrusted with it;only the gently lapping water moved and shone...'

From this point early in his extraordinary first book,Mr Baker holds the reader fast until its brilliant ending.It is not a novel,still less a conventional work of ornithology.It is the record of a passion,almost an obsession.

Hardback;1967 1st ed.191pp.A brilliant read.Price £12.00