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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

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Maybe author Sy Montgomery is right when she says that “birdwatchers often look down on falconry,” and maybe not. In training, the falconer must never think of rewards and punishments, Nancy Cowan (pictured below, with her Harris’s hawk, Scoter), tells her: “They don’t serve us. We serve them.”. Could I do this?”

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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At the same time, a Peregrine Falcon flies across the valley. By the last year of the war, the US increased its military aid to the Greek Government and introduced a new weapon: the first napalm attack after World War II took place right here! Peregrine Falcon – Falco peregrinus. and Apennine peninsulas (30 + 50 ind.).

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Weavers

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It’s often considered wasteful that so many nests are abandoned and left to degenerate, but my theory of one of the reasons for this behavior is related to predation. Their nests are also a messy structure due to protective thorns on the outside, but the interior is constructed of softer grasses.

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