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Falcon Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson

10,000 Birds

Falcon Wild is a new book in that long tradition, and this one features a more realistic (though still very slightly romanticized) portrait of a human/animal partnership. Falcon Wild by Terry Lynn Johnson, $16.99, Charlesbridge Publishing. Stark, a white Gyrfalcon , is a falconry bird born and raised.

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“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

10,000 Birds

As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction. 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.”.