American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New Jersey
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Bolt from the Blue
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Bolt from the Blue
Wild Peregrines on the Hunt
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Dick Dekker's observations of wild peregrines--their habits, habitats, conservation and behavior. The peregrine falcon, fastest creature on earth, stoops out of the blue to take its wary prey by surprise. Yet, this high drama is rarely witnessed by people. This book offers the unique accounts of a passionate expert who has see more than 2,000 hunts by wild peregrines. A perceptive and personal narrative aimed at a wide readership, this book portrays the fabled falcon in a variety of landscapes, migrating over the prairies, caring for its young at the nest of wintering on the coast were it meets its nemesis, the mighty bald eagle.
In 2009, Dekker received a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He currently resides in Edmonton and continues his passions in wildlife observation.
- ISBN-13
- 9780888394347
- Publisher
- Hancock House
- Imprint
- Hancock House
- Publication date
- 5 July 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 mm
- Illustrations
- 32 page color photo section & b/w line drawings.
- Language
- English
