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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Curious and inventive, he figured out he didn’t need their assistance, just their instructions to help him capture and train a young Cooper’s Hawk. Inexperienced, perhaps overly confident, he didn’t know she was one of the wildest of hawks to train. The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers.

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Invasive species in Australia

10,000 Birds

We have seen them on remote beaches hunting shorebirds and taking their eggs and they have been responsible for much of the egg loss in breeding Pied Oystercatchers along the Broome coast. Feral cat predation on Pied Oystercatcher eggs. They are incredibly cunning and not easily trapped.

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