LIFE ON THE WING: ADVENTURES WITH BIRDS OF PREY.

LIFE ON THE WING: ADVENTURES WITH BIRDS OF PREY.
Author: Moran (David Taylor.).
Book Code: 11826
ISBN: 0965551903
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(1996) 1997 2nd printing. Round Table Press. Boulder, Colorado.

Folio. Ppxviii,251. Colour plates by George Lodge, D.M. Reid-Henry & others, colour photographs. Green boards gilt. Mint in dust-wrapper. Signed & numbered by the author.

Notes:
David Moran recounts his adventures in in falconry in North America, with many excellent paintings and illustrations. "Original works by the well-known English masters G.E. Lodge and D.M. Reid-Henry, some published here for the first time, will please the eye of the naturalist who loves fine art - as will the numerous paintings and photographs contributed by outstanding American wildlife artists." Chapters include; about the author; about the artists; the lesson of the Arctic; introduction - on hawks and hawking, notes on training, a day when things went right; of goshawks wild and tame; a red-tail enters our lives; adventures with Cooper's hawks; three fine prairie falcons; a trio of peregrines; a tale of two owls; of grouse, gyrfalcons and dogs.