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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

His musings on falconry in Medieval times begin with the Bayeux Tapestry, which tells the story of the Norman Conquest and is full of birds, including hawks and falcons on the wrists of the main contenders. The drawing on the left is from 1714, the one on the right is the result of Birkhead’s own dissection.

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

10,000 Birds

Many are familiar with dissecting owl pellets, but several birds will caste a pellet including hawks, eagles, gulls, herons and heck, I once witnessed a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hack up a small one. When you think of a bird eating raptor, you think of fast birds like Peregrine Falcons and Cooper’s Hawks.

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