THE PEREGRINE FALCON. By Richard Sale and Steve Watson. Second edition. Signed & limited slipcased issue.

Published by Published by the author. (Snowfinch Publishing). Coberley, Gloucestershire. 2024

ISBN 10: 095717327X (ISBN 13: 9780957173279)

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2024). (2022) 2024 2nd edition - slipcased version. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Pp576. Colour photographs, tables and charts, pictorial end-papers, good bibliography. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt. Green cloth slipcase. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper and green cloth slipcase. Limitation bookplate - one of only 50 copies signed by both authors. Over the last five years, the urban population of Peregrines has increased dramatically. In part this was due to the increase in urban pigeon populations where pigeons breed, Peregrines can flourish. But the human populations of towns and cities have also helped, providing potential breeding sites and installing video cameras so that urban folk can watch and admire the falcons. Renowned for their speed and flight abilities, a bird that once could only be seen in remote, wild places, became a star of local CCTV. This updated book investigates all aspects of Peregrine life, from plumage, through diet, breeding and survival. The falcons breed on all continents apart from Antarctica and data has been collected from across that vast range. In addition, modern technology has been used to study the flights which have made the falcon famous as arguably the fastest creature on the planet. Allied to excellent photography the result is a comprehensive book on this most iconic bird. In this new edition dissections and computer reconstructions have revealed more about the structure of the air sacs that are part of the respiratory system. Chapter 3 provides new data and discussion on the function and evolutionary origin of the Peregrine's tubercle (a cone-shaped structure in the nostril) and dispels some of the myths surrounding this structure. Additionally, results from micro-CT scanning reveal previously unseen details on bone thickness of limb and wing bones and on the internal anatomy of the nasal passage. Together with this anatomical data, results from behavioural experiments presented here strongly support the idea that peregrine falcons have a sense of olfaction they use in hunting. .…

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Title
THE PEREGRINE FALCON. By Richard Sale and Steve Watson. Second edition. Signed & limited slipcased issue.
Author
Sale (Richard) & Watson (Steve).
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Published by the author. (Snowfinch Publishing). Coberley, Gloucestershire. 2024
Condition
new
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Hardcover

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PAUL MORGAN IS A LEADING DEALER in scarce, out-of-print & new books on fishing and field sports. Paul has developed this business over more than forty years. His business, Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., carries the world's largest range of books on fishing and field sports, sporting guns and dogs, deer, big game hunting & falconry. Coch-y-Bonddu Books is also a noted publisher of fine sporting works, as well as being the custodian of the famous Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint. Under Paul's editorial direction, the list of titles available under both his Coch-y- Bonddu Books imprint and the Flyfisher's Classic Library imprint grows by the month. Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd., incorporated in the United Kingdom, Company No. 04636991. Registered address: 15 Heol Penrallt, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8AG. Business and correspondence Address: 13 Heol Pentrerhedyn, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 8DG.…

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