The Peregrine

• Author : J. A. Baker
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• Release : 29 May 2022

The Peregrine, which won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1967, recounts a single year from the author's ten?year obsession with the peregrines that wintered near his home in eastern England. The writing is lyrically charged throughout, as the author's role of diligent observer gives way to a personal transformation, as Baker becomes, in the words of James Dickey, "a fusion of man and bird."

• Author : J. A. Baker
• Publisher : New York Review of Books
• Release : 31 December 2004

This extraordinary, poetic portrait of two peregrine falcons is one of the most beloved works of nature writing ever published. From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with

• Author : J. A. Baker
• Publisher : New York Review of Books
• Release : 31 December 2004

This extraordinary, poetic portrait of two peregrine falcons is one of the most beloved works of nature writing ever published. From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their prey, making a kill, eating, and at rest, activities he describes with

• Author : Madeleine Dunphy
• Publisher : Web of Life Children's Book
• Release : 24 October 2012

The Peregrine’s Journey vividly describes one of the most remarkable feats in the animal kingdom. Beginning in Alaska and ending two months later in Argentina, the peregrine falcon’s annual migration is an 8,000-mile flight across the Americas. This beautifully illustrated book allows young readers to follow one bird on its journey. Based on the actual migration of a real bird that was tracked by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the book is filled with amazing facts

• Author : J. A. Baker
• Publisher : HarperCollins UK
• Release : 09 June 2011

J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing

• Author : John Alec Baker
• Publisher : Harpercollins
• Release : 29 May 1967

A natural history of the falcon precedes a 7-month journal of observations of the habits of the peregrine

• Author : William Bayer
• Publisher : Macmillan
• Release : 01 June 2005

Circling high over Rockefeller Center is a peregrine falcon, the most awesome of the flying predators. She awaits a signal from her falconer. It is given: the bird attacks, plummeting from the sky at nearly 200 miles an hour, striking a young woman and killing her instantly. So begins Peregrine, a chilling tale of obsession. By chance, newscaster Pamela Barrett witnesses the slaying. Her impassioned account of it on television that evening thrills the falconer, a brilliant madman who identifies with

• Author : Christie Gove-Berg
• Publisher : Adventure Publications
• Release : 26 April 2016

This true story tells the tale of a peregrine falcon that is injured while flying, then rescued and rehabilitated by a wildlife center.

• Author : A. J. Hartley
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 13 October 2011

For fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society--now in paperback! Eleven-year-old Darwen Arkwright has spent his whole life in a tiny town in England. So when he is forced to move to Atlanta, Georgia, to live with his aunt, he knows things will be different--but what he finds there is beyond even his wildest imagination! Darwen discovers an enchanting world through the old mirror hanging in his closet--a world that holds as many dangers as it does wonders. Along with his

• Author : Derek Ratcliffe
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release : 30 June 2010

The first edition of The Peregrine Falcon was widely recognised as a classic of its kind, documenting not only the species' biology but also the sad tale of its decline due to the impact of pesticides. This extensively revised and enlarged second edition takes full account of important new developments in the story of this bird during the intervening 12 years. It reports one of the few notable successes in wildlife conservation: the full restoration of British and Irish Peregrine populations,

• Author : Mary Hennen
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 21 July 2017

"Published in Association with the Field Museum."

• Author : John Alec Baker
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release : 29 May 1969

• Author : Caroline Arnold
• Publisher : LernerClassroom
• Release : 01 January 1985

Describes the efforts of scientists who are trying to save the peregrine falcon from extinction by taking the fragile eggs that would not survive in the wild, hatching them, raising the chicks, and then releasing the birds back into the wild.

• Author : Patrick Stirling-Aird
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 26 February 2015

Reaching speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour, the Peregrine Falcon is famous as the world's fastest bird. However, its penchant for choosing inaccessible places to breed, feed and roost mean that few people are well acquainted with its habits and behaviour. This ebook offers a window into that rarely seen world, thanks to a combination of high quality images and beautifully written text, with chapters on subjects such as hunting, raising young and how populations around the world have

• Author : Tom J. Cade,William A. Burnham,Pat Burnham
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 29 May 2022

The book is intended for a non-scientific audience but does contain previously unpublished information, tables, and graphs plus an extensive literature cited section and a bibliography for Eastern and Midwestern Peregrine restoration publications from 1971-2000.