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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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That summer of 1938, when he was ten years old, Cade read of two brothers, Frank and John Craighead, who wrote of their experiences with falcons in National Geographic. I knew no falconers. ” Falcons could be taken from the nest just before they were able to fly or caught wild after maturity. The concern possessed him.

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Do Not Feed Baby Birds Ham

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And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I I had a finder bring me a bird he’d correctly ID’d as a merlin – a not-too-common falcon – but when he brought him in, I could see he’d been trying to feed it BIRD SEED!” Perhaps she had been watching Monty Python’s Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.). “I wrote Maryjane Angelo.

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Comebackers

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North American Peregrine Falcons have also enjoyed an impressive population rebound in recent years. The most notorious effect is that their eggshells become so thin that a parent bird will crush it’s eggs while attempting to incubate them. Brown Pelicans are not an unusual sight on the California coast. Half Moon Bay, CA.

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