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

10,000 Birds

There’s the Neolithic era; Ancient Egypt (bird mummies!); He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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Grifalco: Aglianico del Vulture “Gricos” (2016)

10,000 Birds

But they are also highly-prized for their ruthless and powerful efficiency in killing – medieval illustrations depict them downing cranes and a twentieth-century painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes shows a falconer’s Gyrfalcon inflicting a lethal strike on a Gray Heron ( Ardea cinerea ).

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