| 单词 | falcon |
| 例句 | On the way there, Mariam saw herb shops, and open-fronted cubbyholes where shoppers bought oranges and pears, books, shawls, even falcons. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The falcons and owls and eagles have no civil rights because you discriminate against them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The falcon's anger and wildness were like his own, and had become his own, and his will to fly had become the falcon’s will. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “I understand you have a peregrine falcon nesting on this bridge,” Flip Pearson said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Above it swung a sign showing a picture of a falcon perched on a branch with a mouse in its beak. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I had all sorts of plans for hoods and jesses, as the straps on a falcon are called, and I soon forgot about the man. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She would not live to be ten or twenty-five years old, as some peregrine falcons do. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I’m the conservation officer. You’re harboring an endangered species—a peregrine falcon.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. I have a friend on the staff there. You got me interested in peregrine falcons, and he got me interested in the effort to keep them on the planet with us.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a moment before they caught—a moment just long enough for the falcon to fly over them and to settle inside the castle, and then, with a whoomph, they burst into flame. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Falconers raise them for falcon food. “And down by the county road is a huge rhododendron thicket. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Then don’t feed her if you are so anxious for her to be a pilgrim falcon.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Metal rang, and a falcon's wing collapsed with a crunch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He thought she was mocking him with this question, because the falcon had not fully obeyed his summons. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z A pack of white timber wolves milled around their feet, and many of the girls had hunting falcons on their arms. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Freya walked stiffly away and returned with a cloak covered with falcon feathers. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Come harass the falcon,” the raucous crows called to each other. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Astride the animal was a horseman dressed completely in black, with a falcon perched on his left shoulder. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Lady sensed the high pressure of the same front and she, like Drum and Duchess, began the long pilgrimage of the peregrine falcon to warmer climates. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The falcons came in from behind me and circled the stream. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The alchemist was ready, and he mounted his own steed and placed the falcon on his left shoulder. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to take the little falcon to our home. Follow me.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “What do you call that kind of charm, that made the falcon come?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Parents confessed to strangers and each other that they never had the least interest in falcons until their children told them about the peregrines of the Delhi Bridge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The sirrahs continued to circle, squalling their ravenous chorus, and their ranks were disrupted once more, as they had been yesterday, by the passage of a message falcon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He knew nothing about Malta, except for some vague story about a Maltese falcon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A prairie falcon called softly from another room. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Frightful, my trained falcon, flew to my fist, and we jumped and slid down the mountain, making big holes and trenches as we went. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Telling a falcon and a raccoon to be best friends was almost impossible. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The territory around the mill house, at the risk of death, belonged to the owls at night and the falcons by day. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “To nourish the falcon. And the falcon then nourishes man. And, eventually, man will nourish your sands, where the game will once again flourish. That’s how the world goes.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Jon brought the van to the shipping entrance and carried the hooded falcons and hawks into the auditorium. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “No matter how hard it tries, no bird in a dive comes close to a peregrine falcon.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And finally the falcon returned with their meal. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z No known bird can match the speed of a peregrine falcon in flight. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Falconers for three millennia in Asia and Europe had put the exact same kind of straps on the legs of their falcons, hawks, and eagles. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The culprit was a falcon thief named Bate. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Frightful backed off a few steps and stared at the young falcon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Kettles of northern peregrine falcons arrived in the valley. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The falcon flew off to find game, and the alchemist offered his water container to the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The falcon...my dear, you have a deadly enemy.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Then Loki wrapped the falcon cloak tightly about himself and, in falcon form, flapped his wings and rose, faster even than an eagle, and was gone, flying north, toward the lands of the frost giants. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “By the way, Molly,” Leon asked, “how did you happen to see the falcons?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “You are worse than that. You’re a traitor—an environmental traitor. These little falcons belong to North America.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “These are endangered falcons. And they are going to have babies.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A well- trained falcon might be worth her weight in gold. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Peregrine falcons—two of the mere thirty-four in the entire state— and the bureaucrats won’t stop this work for them.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Last spring the newspaper said the sheriff arrested some falcon poachers in a cave at Beaver Comers. I’ll bet they are the ones who stole the eyases, and I’ll bet they’re right there now.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She was waiting for the “psee” cry of baby falcons, or the “good girl, help yourself” words from Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The young falcon was climbing the cliff, beating her wings, taking hold of rock cracks with the hook of her beak and her talons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Here I dressed down the rabbit and fed Frightful some of the more savory bites from a young falcon’s point of view: the liver, the heart, the brain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran as a peregrine falcon dives, he ran as a storm wind blows, he ran like Thialfi, and nobody has ever run like Thialfi, not before and not since. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She still holds her body straight up and down and her head high in the manner of the peregrine falcon. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you mean to say,” he asked, “that you loosed that falcon on purpose, with her cranes on, so as to be able to murder me when I was naked?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And finally, up where the falcons soared, a flash of white in the moonlight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At the end of the day, the boy went looking for the alchemist, who had taken his falcon out into the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The weak became life and energy for the falcons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Each hawk or falcon stood in the silver upon one leg, the other tucked up inside the apron of its panel, and each was a motionless statue of a knight in armour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “A fierce and noble falcon right out of the wilds of White Man Mountain, and look at her—sweet as a baby.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z How did a mother falcon warn her young of danger? My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw how they dodged Jon’s young falcons with twists and turns. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Who would ever favorite a pigeon when there are arctic terns in the world...and great blue herons...and red-tailed hawks...and peregrine falcons...and golden eagles...and...” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In early March the first of the migrating falcons and hawks returned to the Catskill Mountains. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She put a check beside “peregrine falcon” in the raptor counting book. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z At the sight of a peregrine falcon they vanished. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “The peregrine falcon is the world’s fastest animal when it’s in its hunting stoop. It can dive at speeds near two hundred miles per hour.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I didn’t go too close because I heard a peregrine falcon call near the ground—then men talking. I was unarmed.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I tucked her in my sweater and leaned against the cliff, facing the bulletlike dive of the falcon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think two peregrine falcons are nesting on the bridge,” she had said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Despite blasts of cold winds, rain, and snow, Frightful felt the peregrine falcon spring. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She peered at the girder, waiting for the little falcons to thrust up their heads. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He tells me how the peregrine falcon hits speeds of 200 miles per hour in a dive. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The Arab sheiks prize falcons,” the librarian continues. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She is only Dr. Martin: bird expert, veterinarian, rescuer of falcons and eaglets. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His eyes were hooded, but his falcon’s face was keen and avid. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “We sure need peregrine falcons. They’re so important in the balance of nature.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z To the north a falcon wheeled slowly over the shining walls of Pharaoh’s palace, as if to proclaim the presence within of the royal god-king he symbolized. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Sam, I say to myself as I start across the bridge, you must stop these thoughts and start thinking about what to do now that you have no falcon. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He would have gone easier and swifter as falcon or dolphin, but Ogion had advised him not to change his shape, and he knew the value of Ogion’s advice. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Frightful was on her post, and I wanted to see the mouse’s face when he found he was in a den with a falcon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was almost to the lodge, a great horned owl saw rabbit and falcon, sped silently out of the woods, and sank her talons into the food. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “After all, she is Falco peregrinus, the pilgrim falcon.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Purple mountains reaching towards angelfeather clouds; a falcon soaring in a calm blue sky; God combing His sunshine fingers through green pastures straight out of the Psalms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Two white falcons swoop over each other, beaks open. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “The falcon’s beak carries bits of me, myself,” the desert said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As the light dimmed, the young falcon walked into her elaborate room with its curls and spindles and lay down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “You ask that, Bando, because you don’t know what it feels like to set a peregrine falcon free.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Save the peregrine falcons,” he said in a loud, clear voice. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In a few seconds he was holding a bronze and silver falcon. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Often he told me of the birds he had seen, the hawks and falcons and once an eagle. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The Hunters took off down the avenue, followed by their wolves and falcons, and I had a feeling the Lincoln Tunnel would be safe for now. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Peregrine falcons are nesting on this bridge,” Molly piped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When the spell was whole and woven he said softly,—“Ged,”—not looking at the falcon on the hearth. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She turned her head and saw a male peregrine falcon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The alchemist rode in front, with the falcon on his shoulder. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Putting my arms on the desk and my head on my arms, I see my falcon going down the mountain on the conservation officer’s fist. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Susan tilted her head to delve the mystery, could not, and turned back to the job of packing canvas carriers with food, hoods, and jesses for the eagle, hawks, owls, and falcons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Frightful had been in the territory of two devoted parents who were defending their young against a falcon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “The rabbits I saw are for food, and they are being fed to a falcon, an owl, a hawk, or maybe a raven.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “That one on our hill,” Jon said, pointing to the pole that had killed his falcon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She did not call Sam by his falcon name. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “The guy you are looking for is in that box. I came in to look around this famous lodge. I found him here with two falcons.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “There’s been quite a bit of interest in hawks and falcons around here lately,” he says. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Oksi, the falcon and the first hatched, was bigger than the two tiercels. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The fans of the falcons of the Delhi Bridge trooped back into the clean, roomy bird barn and watched with great concern while Perry stroked the terrified falcon to calm him down. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z You couldn’t train a falcon, then expect it not to hunt. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z No spring force pulled her north with the returning falcons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Frightful was in the air before Leon Longbridge could say another word about female peregrine falcons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The falcons and hawks sought shelter in forests and buildings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It lit up Frightful’s falcon hood on a shelf and threw light on a stack of library books. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Do you think it’s more important to save a peregrine falcon nest or mend a dangerous bridge?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Simple if you know the trick of it, remarked the vulture as she laid a falcon egg.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The falcons weren’t birds; they were F-16 Falcon Fighter Jets. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The prairie falcon and the sharp- shinned hawk were there, too. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Sam found falcon food in the old refigerator, picked up the eyas box, and went out to the porch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When he spotted a falcon ahead of him, Thiazi let out a scream of rage and increased his speed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Frightful slowed down, instinctively recognizing the love song of the male peregrine falcon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “That is our falcon,” Leon Longbridge said, focusing his binoculars on Frightful. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A place for eagles and owls, falcons and kestrels, hawks and vultures, ospreys and buzzards, too. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Apparently, the more you stroke and handle a falcon, the easier they are to train. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I told her I wanted some books on hawks and falcons, and she located a few, although there was not much to be had on the subject. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lower away,” Flip yelled when he had the little falcons in a canvas pack. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He knew there was a falcon’s nest in the cliffs above the meadow, and he summoned the bird by its name. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z On these days Sam climbed to Frightful before the kids came by on their way to school to check on the falcons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Selling falcons to Arabian sheiks,” the librarian goes on, “has always been a big business, even when Jesus lived.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The falcon flies off the boy’s fist, and kills rabbits and pheasants when the boy needs food. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the prairie falcon is on her way to Idaho. “How’s that for a happy ending?” he asks and takes a sandwich from his packbasket. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Two new companions joined Frightful, one an older peregrine falcon and the other a young tiercel. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When the ogre saw Loki in falcon shape, he grinned a sharp-toothed grin and waved. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She watched him stare at the paper falcon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And the falcon would fly directly to where the baby was. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “When I go down, I’ll leave it up here. Hopefully all the falcon watchers will think it’s the nest. “And something else. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “That’s the last place in the world for a peregrine falcon to nest. No cliffs over there.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The boy wanted to know what that was, but the alchemist was searching the horizon, looking for the falcon. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Shooting across the clouds like a crossbow in the sky speeds a peregrine falcon. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m at the Delhi Bridge. There’s a jessed falcon on the bow. What do you make of that?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She hovered above my head, looked at the falcon and then at my hand, folded her wings, and dropped to my fist. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful was making a scrape, a peregrine falcon’s nest, which is nothing but bare earth or, in Frightful’s case, an iron plate where she wanted to sit. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The blade was engraved with a delicate silver tracery of a mountain sky; its pommel was a falcon's head, its cross-guard fashioned into the shape of wings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Have you seen the place where they keep the falcons at the university—the peregrine mew?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Loki put on the feathered cloak and he took to the air, in falcon shape. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Only that serene falcon Susan named Destiny would put up with this.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The front end, and down to the forelegs and shoulders, was like a huge falcon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiled but did not tell the kids that he had seen the Delhi falcon feeding the third chick in a box on Sam Gribley’s mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He and Susan raised these pigeons for their hawks and falcons to chase and perfect their skills. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “They could carry rabbits or falcons or cats or even you, Mole.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He ducked behind the curtain and emerged a moment later, a folded sheet draped over one arm and a peregrine falcon perched on the other. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “We can’t see the chicks, we can’t follow the falcon—” “There are some transformers up the valley, where our falcon went,” said Molly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Of course. Their great-uncle had five pools with swans. And falcons in the roof.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Another Pole took up “Hey, falcons!” with him, and then there was a chorus. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The lady picked up toe falcon and began to go away. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was there he found the paper falcon, hanging like an ornament in the yew bush. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z As Jon worked the land and flew his falcon, he saw how important the raptors were to the environment. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She is here, she is here, she is here, in the hearts of a falcon and a kingfisher and a swan. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “No, it’s not. It’s a hawk, not a falcon.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes came back from the distance, fixing them personally with a falcon’s gleam. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She flew to them, and the three falcons played on the invisible roller coasters of wind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Bate is holding, not Frightful, but a prairie falcon. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The hawk family passionately attacked falcons from the north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I never knew peregrine falcons made nests. They like bare ground.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Jon named all the birds and flew the prairie falcon from one end of the auditorium to the other. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The falcon and the dog looked at each other. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Millard set the falcon down and held the sheet in front, screening the bird from the audience. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z An ill-bred falcon, who was subject to the vice of screaming, stood hooded and motionless on a perch like a parrot’s, brooding in some ancestral nightmare. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell them peregrine falcons are nesting here. I’m sure when they hear that, they’ll want to wait until the nesting season is over. These are very special birds.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I wanted a falcon so badly, however, that I dug in with my toes and hands and started up. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “When we get to the webs,” he said, “I want you to paint the ones near the nest. You seem to know something about peregrine falcons.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A wild tercel, the male peregrine falcon, passed overhead. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a tiger, a gazelle, a bear, a falcon. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The madwoman folded a map into the shape of a falcon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He pulled a feather from the falcon’s back, and the whole automaton fell apart. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z A fine peregrine falcon, with her music jingling in the whistling wind als clear, and her creance trailing behind her, was beating along above his head toward the top of ' one of the elms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The kids and Leon Longbridge looked back to see the falcon fly in terror. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Sam returned to the little falcon and took off her hood. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Work will stop on the bridge on Route 28 until the young peregrine falcons are fledged. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He saw no such marks, absolutely none, then remembered that Leon Longbridge had told him no peregrine falcon would nest near Delhi—no cliffs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “When I shot the squirrels at the falcons,” said Akimi, “the pilots parachuted. If a squirrel bit the pilot in the butt, I got a fifty-point bonus.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z A virtual pet falcon swoops in circles around her head, its tail blazing with fire. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Frightful was alone, the only peregrine falcon in the Catskills who had not migrated. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Frightful, who for most of her life had been raised by Sam—not by peregrine falcons—had much to learn. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The young falcon was running to the rabbit with outstretched wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z All the hawks, and of course we are using the term loosely, for some were hawks and some were falcons, raised their belled feet again and sat at ease. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, let’s get out of here anyway. He knows we were in jail for selling falcons and hawks to wealthy Saudi Arabian falconers. That’s a federal offense. Remember?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The falcon ornament held in his tongs was no better than half the goldsmiths in Thebes could fashion. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Then he led the parade to the park in front of the courthouse and let the falcon lovers wave their signs at passing cars. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The Muscovy heard the falcon cry and flapped in terror. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Prince Humperdinck. There is no greater hunter. He can track a falcon on a cloudy day; he can find you.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They kept records of the endangered peregrine falcons. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z All good falcons wear jesses and leashes so they can be tethered for their training. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The peregrine falcon paid no attention to the tone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As a hot dry wind clears the air, I can see Frightful, my peregrine falcon, sitting in front of the six-foot-in- diameter hemlock tree that I hollowed out for a home. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Having sent Frightful on her way, the three males came after her, but Frightful’s tapered falcon wings were faster than their broad hawk wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I’m hunting with my falcon,” the alchemist answered. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the Wright Brothers’ 1915 Flyer, airplanes had evolved from pelican-like awkwardness to sleek machines with the silhouette of a falcon; why wouldn’t a spaceship continue along that same path? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Quiet as a shadow, she flitted across the middle bai-ley, around the Tower of Dread, and through the empty mews, where people said the spirits of dead falcons stirred the air with ghostly wings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Out of the sky, from a pinpoint of a thing, would dive my beautiful falcon. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z All peregrine falcons call the high-pitched creees, but when Frightful sees me in the morning or when I return from the forest, even when she is flying high above my head, she adds “car-reet.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, to go to Beaver Corners and get my beloved falcon back. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If a falcon is hooded she will not bate, that is, she won’t fly off your fist and hang head down by her jesses, beating her wings and hurting herself. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As he worked, he wondered about a peregrine falcon and a stick nest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He said that he had a falcon and homemade fishhooks and fishing rods. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “That’s why the falcons didn’t come back to the eggs,” Flip said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He snapped his fingers, and the robotic falcon flew back to the worktable. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Frightful’s little falcons are in the lodge. I’ll get one of the rabbits and let it go in front of the lodge.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Frightful’s not there, either, but I do see falcon perches, leashes, and hoods. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Safer looks at me like I’m nuts, “You’re joking, right? I’m not talking about a robbery. I’m talking about falcons or hawks—don’t they teach you about birds of prey at school?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “There sits the falcon of Delhi Bridge. I’d know that dark, beautiful head anywhere.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Gawaine, who was the head of the family, walked first, with a falcon in juvenile plumage on his fist. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Below him in the Victorian house, the falcon fan club was peering through the spotting scope in Molly’s room. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “As soon as the Muscovy flaps, that falcon will dive and hit the net.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Eril-Fane released a message falcon and it rose through the ranks of them, screaming a raptor’s warning before striking out for the Cusp. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He nurtured her like a peregrine falcon mother would. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “You know, Jon,” she said, “I have the funniest feeling that our guest is a trained falcon.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “The wildest of all our falcons, the one most intolerant of human beings, has discovered rats. She will be an enormous asset to Delhi.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A prairie falcon called out a single note. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Frightful, a falcon of the open skies, did not follow. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The thought of seeing falcons on the wing lightens my feet, and I step up our pace through the rugged farmland. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran full speed downhill for the West Branch of the Delaware, looking at rocks and trees for white streaks of bird excrement that marked a peregrine falcon aerie. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Save the peregrine falcons!” a cluster of nearby kids echoed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He leaned over the box and whispered in falcon talk to the little birds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He called the love song of the peregrine falcon. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, Sir Lancelot! I have lost my falcon.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They were swimming and eating below the two falcons on the West Branch of the Delaware. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I saw that falcon guy from Roxbury driving along the lumber road down below.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Well,” Jon answered, “that man Bate and his friend are out of jail, you know. Last spring they were selling falcons to an Arabian agent, and I haven’t heard yet that they’ve reformed.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The inside walls would be beautifully painted and hung with tapestries, and every cross-timber or falcon’s perch was carved and gewgawed with toads, snakes, dragon shapes, deer, cows, pigs, trees, trolls. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is a peregrine falcon, or a duck hawk, as these wonderful birds were once called. “She was late in migrating south this year and came over White Man Mountain on a chilly day. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I’ve no doubt you have watched your ingots today as the falcon watches the lark.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Eighteen miles and sixteen minutes away as the falcon flies, the repair work on the Margaretville Bridge was nearing completion. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The last of the vanishing eastern peregrine falcons breed in Greenland and Canada, and a few winter as far south as the Catskills. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When he saw the plaque under the peregrine falcon, the one that was just plain wrong, the day took on a different tone. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They saw the little falcon coming toward them, the enormous eagle so close behind it. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z At level flight, the peregrine falcon is unremarkable. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “By the way,” Leon said as he unlocked his door, “tomorrow before school the kids are going to hold a parade to save the falcons.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Thiazi saw a falcon’s feather on the ground, and he knew in that moment where Idunn was and who had taken her. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “That’s all the time the falcons need to grow up and fly away.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z My father is like a falcon, the one who dared to fly where others would not go. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z With Sam’s and Jon’s training, she had become a peregrine falcon of the twenty-first century. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z This bird, I was sure, was the peregrine falcon, the king’s hunting bird. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes,” said Molly emphatically, “or she won’t come back next year. Peregrine falcons like privacy.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “When Jon Wood showed us a peregrine falcon that had been electrocuted on utility poles, we wrote letters to the company.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Then Loki flew as a falcon about the keep, peering into each window as he went. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Richard Owen, the paleontologist who hovered over England’s natural historians like a patrician falcon, descended from the Royal College of Surgeons, to verify and catalog Darwin’s fossil skeletons. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z On the porch, Sam and Henry each fed a little falcon, then rocked back on their heels and looked at them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z They were playing peregrine falcon games she had never learned. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The peregrine falcon stood hooded on a perch in the corner, a motionless idol dreaming of other skies. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Without the peregrine falcons to keep them in check, they were so numerous that the courthouse windows and ledges were white with birdlime. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Jon then told the story of how one of his falcons was electrocuted on the wires of the transformer in his field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The only thing that could make this any better is if I had a falcon on my shoulder. Net neutrality, sex, falconry: In one week, I crashed as many D.C. conferences as possible. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Those who live in or near high-rises often find birds that flew into the buildings at night, and two birds — a peregrine falcon and a common gallinule — were among the most noteworthy donations. Behind taxidermy display halls are lots of donors of (unsolicited) dead animals 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “A falcon could mount to the stars and still count the hairs on a goat’s head,” Kylee muses. Young Adult Fantasy Novels That Sweep Readers Away 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z With the aid of 3D imagery the museum has been able to make a model of a small falcon that was sealed inside the casket along with the body. Mummified singer is star of new British Museum exhibition 2014-04-10T09:26:11Z This weekend’s trip heads to the huge Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where you can expect to see osprey, peregrine falcons, willets and many other species. Spare Times for Children for June 19-25 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z He says his experience with falcons has influenced his approach to parenting. Learning to be a father: 'I could connect with another species but not my own son' 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The site – officially known as Raptor Ranch: Birds of Prey – will also house falcons, eagles and owls, according to KPNX. 'Flintstones'-themed tourist attraction is sold off, will be turned into falconry center 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z After her father, the Portuguese royal falconer, is arrested on a false charge of heresy, Isabela can prevent his execution only by travelling alone to Iceland to capture two rare falcons. Thrillers: John O'Connell's choice – reviews 2012-08-10T21:55:07Z He looks like an eel wrapped in velvet, but is as quizzically attentive as a falcon, his head slightly to one side sizing up the prey. Fences; Trelawny of the Wells; Richard III – review 2013-03-03T00:05:30Z “Museum Secrets Revealed: Inside the Egyptian Museum” looks at coffins of silver and gold and studies mummified pharaohs, cats, falcons and baboons. Founder of the Steinway piano empire is profiled on Smithsonian Channel Around 50 mummified animals, including mice and falcons, were also recovered from the tomb. Finely painted Ptolemaic tomb unveiled in Egypt 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Families who register — the fee is $15 — can expect to see migratory songbirds and perhaps falcons and hawks. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z In one scene, men sit in tents next to enormous monitors showing a falconry contest in which falcons chase down other birds while they in turn are chased by still other men. The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z “He is a falcon unhooded and off the glove. He is pure body.” Review | Mark Haddon’s ‘The Porpoise’ sounds like homework. It’s actually fantastic. 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z An inspection through binoculars of the lone peregrine falcon revealed the grayish underparts of the common cassini, and not the rarer pallid morph. In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z They aren’t fully emotional or spiritual beings, but walking problems, as metaphorical as Ivan’s falcons and, like this movie, much tamer than they look. Review: ‘Aloft’ Trains an Eagle Eye on Human Misery 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Real Housewives hovered, students sketched live falcons, and an accordionist in a top hat serenaded the guests. A Celebrity Party Where Andy Warhol Would Have Fit Right In 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The Battle of Boxhill is the story of a young peregrine falcon called Ryker who is separated from his family when he becomes injured. The Battle of Boxhill by Liam McCann - review 2012-08-29T08:00:00Z The stories he’s told — of a hungry falcon testing the magnanimity of a ruler, of a snake denying guilt after having bitten a child — speak to antiquity’s comprehension of the crucial qualities of enlightened leadership. Review | The remarkable ‘Battlefield’ speaks softly, and profoundly 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z He can draft a contract, train a falcon, draw a map, stop a street fight, furnish a house and fix a jury.” “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z The opening chapter of the book recounts his first apprehension of a peregrine, and from the start his observation of the falcon is intertwined with his desire to leave himself behind. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In late February, the falcon hurtling down a thousand feet of winter air is “heart-shaped, like a heart in flames,” by March, on an oak branch, it shone “like a huge, inverted golden pear.” Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Though permitted, bringing a falcon on a flight will cost you. Passenger claims men boarded flight with 'emotional support falcons' in viral tweet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Events include morning and evening bird walks; a program organized by the Cornell Raptor Program to learn about hawks, owls and falcons; and a demonstration of how to record bird songs. Pack Those Binoculars. It’s Peak Bird-Watching Season. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Oh, it's the peregrine falcon, which can dive at 200mph apparently. Inside the Perfect Predator and The Air Hospital | TV Review 2010-03-26T06:45:00Z She follows Tom’s gaze … and spots a peregrine falcon on a high ledge. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Sleek black loons, herring gulls, harlequin ducks and oldsquaw dive at the fish on the surface, and eagles, falcons, terns and plovers glide above. From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Scenes From Nature, Buoyant and Surreal Are the swooping falcons swimming, or are the darting catfish flying? | Westchester: A Review of ‘Hudson River Explorers,’ in Yonkers 2012-09-01T04:29:48Z “The falcons look at the basket as their nest, and they’re trained to return to it. They were very young, and they didn’t even pay any attention to the fire.” In Dubai, Flying With the Falcons 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z There was a biblical experience with ladybirds, meaningful meetings with swallows, kestrels and a peregrine falcon, a badger, a bizarre encounter with a tortoise on a lead. ‘Home is a state of mind. You don’t need walls’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Using templates, children will make paper puppets of bullfrogs, raccoons and peregrine falcons. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 30-Jan. 5 2011-12-29T22:23:48Z From this vast wood deck, you can peer down into the garden and spy falcons soaring between the trees. Lucky 13: The unsung arrondissement you need to visit in Paris 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z As the mainstays of a sport going back to at least 700 B.C., falcons fall into the latter category. Review | For years, Jeffrey Lendrum was at once an avid outdoorsman and merciless thief. Then he got caught. 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The area is known for its archaeological finds, including the tomb of Petosiris, an ancient Egyptian priest, and a catacomb filled with mummified falcons, ibises and baboons. Egypt Unveils Dozens of Newly Discovered Mummies 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z A red-tailed hawk circled overhead; later, Olin spotted a kestrel falcon and pointed it out to us. In Idaho, Tracing What Remains After the Flames 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z This weekend’s special three-hour edition heads to the vast Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where you can expect to see osprey, peregrine falcons, willets and many other species. Spare Times for Children for July 3-9 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Peregrine falcons and red grouse also call the mountain home. 36 Hours in Belfast 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Despite the comeback of the falcon’s traditional prey, Mr. Freeman doubted that falconry would ever be fully revived in the Emirates. In Dubai, Flying With the Falcons 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The collection also shows Diana's "understanding of how to deploy fashion as a diplomatic tool," organizers said, including one dress that incorporates the national bird of Saudia Arabia, the falcon. Princess Diana's dresses go on display in London, 20 years after her death 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z “When you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody. That’s what happens.” In ‘Fear,’ Bob Woodward Pulls Back the Curtain on President Trump’s ‘Crazytown’ 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z I noticed two life-size, plastic peregrine falcons resting on a shelf within the skull. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z This epigraphic tendency is also evident in an alam, or royal standard, made of perforated gilt copper in the silhouette of a falcon. Review: ‘Sultans of Deccan India,’ Unearthly Treasures of a Golden Age, at the Met 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z From a bird’s-eye view we watch peregrine falcons raise their chicks. We spend so much time staring at our phones. What do we miss when we don't look up? | Mel Campbell 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The exhibition uses the 1539 theft of a jewel-encrusted golden falcon fashioned by the Knights Templars of Malta for Charles V of Spain as an inventive springboard. Art Trek: A Critic’s Picks in Brooklyn, an Embattled Utopia 2014-04-03T22:22:25Z He is still in pursuit of the falcon, but now he is sure where he’ll find it. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Crouched in the field, Baker watches as distance gathers behind the falcon. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z “Folks two dudes just boarded my plane with emotional support falcons,” Twitter user DonnieDoesWorld wrote in the post. Passenger claims men boarded flight with 'emotional support falcons' in viral tweet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z The poet's delight in the sound and rhythms of language mirror his ecstatic vision of God, as exemplified by the perfection of the falcon's flight. Poster poems: religion 2013-04-12T15:23:10Z The slimy prosecutor, Machard, for example, looks like a cross between a falcon and, well, a frog. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z Rather than pushing the lark idea to the limit Ms. Longstreth included visits to the cuckoo, falcon, owl, bat and a generic bird. Music Review: New Amsterdam Singers, Led by Clara Longstreth 2012-06-03T22:15:08Z A live, snowy white falcon, perched on the arm of a model toward the beginning of the show, was actually supposed to be wearing a custom-made Hermès hood during the show. On the Runway: Q & A: Christophe Lemaire of Herm?s 2011-03-07T18:56:16Z Macdonald weeps when holding a falcon egg and discovering that if she makes a clucking noise, the chick coiled within, ready to hatch, will respond. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z As you bike or hike through craggy shorelines and woodlands, you’ll glimpse wild turkeys, red foxes, bald eagles, peregrine falcons, seals, otters and porpoises. Summer, Reimagined — Minus the Gridlock. Five Alternatives 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z No wonder the likes of Anne Boleyn, who famously loved hawking, chose the image of a crowned white falcon as her personal badge. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways The release of the falcon, previously wrapped like a baby, evokes the moment when, suddenly, a child grasps that she is growing toward freedom. What Should Your Kid Read This Summer? Here Are Three to Start With 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Note that the national forest’s official Web site states that, “from March to August some years, the trail to the cliffs is closed to protect nesting peregrine falcons.” In Transit: Touring Vermont Before Settling Down 2011-06-27T17:54:07Z High in the baby-blue sky above Curry Hammock State Park in the Florida Keys, a very small merlin falcon with a very big attitude repeatedly attacked an osprey five times its size. Migrating birds of prey draw visitors to the Florida Keys 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z At 40, he “can draft a contract, train a falcon, draw a map, stop a street fight, furnish a house and fix a jury.” Review: ‘Wolf Hall,’ by Hilary Mantel 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z There were just four cards: the peregrine falcon, the Nile crocodile, the great white shark, and the cheetah. Inside the Perfect Predator and The Air Hospital | TV Review 2010-03-26T06:45:00Z The Hawk Walks are now arranged to order, but there are two scheduled displays a day, Tori flying her Asian owls and David working with his peregrine-mix falcons. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways “It was filled with pictures of these aristocratic rich people who’d dressed up their falcons in outfits to match their own.” | A Baroque-Folk Troubadour Takes Flight 2013-12-09T17:07:04Z Quite a few of the “kooky” contestants, the ones with puppets and spells and flying falcons, are recruited, but for comic relief rather than a quick advance to the finals. Best of 2018: I am a "MasterChef" survivor 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z In "No Man's Land", fresh-faced lawyer Pan Xiao gets on the wrong side of falcon poachers, two truckers and nearly everyone else in the northwestern Chinese desert. Chinese directors master Nordic noir, shoot-'em-up Western 2014-02-13T15:12:54Z Recommended for children 8 and older, the program will show off the prowess of hawks, owls and falcons. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Even a trained rental falcon resists control, the video seems to say. In Nell Zink’s ‘Avalon,’ a Young Woman Is Too Busy for Revenge 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Many birds decline — the parrot feels too safe in its cage, the falcon does not want to leave its master, the nightingale will not leave its love. 'The Conference of the Birds': reviving a 12th-century Persian epic 2011-11-16T22:53:03Z Dee is a very candid writer, as observant about his own idiosyncrasies as he is about those of storm petrels in Shetland or peregrine falcons riding the air-currents by the Clifton suspension bridge. Summer reading: 'coalition books' 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z In England, falconry has been part of the culture since there was a culture: The Saxon leader Byrhtnoth took his falcon with him as he rode to fight the Vikings in A.D. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways Peregrine falcons, not goshawks, are the elite birds in British falconry books. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The prose does for the reader what Baker asks of the falcon: it takes one out of oneself. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z They acquired some owls, a couple of falcons. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways “I have a falcon but it’s not real,” Huston laughed. ‘The Maltese Falcon’ returns to theaters at ripe age of 80 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Aged eight, Ms Macdonald was already fascinated by falcons, and came across White’s book; it was unlike any other book about birds she owned. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In the last pages of the book, the falcon, now acclimated to his observer, keeps him in sight; he is Caliban, Baker writes, to the falcon’s Ariel. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The classic natural appeal of the estate, long ago downsized to 840 acres including walled gardens, walking trails and falcon training, will remain untouched. In Europe and Canada, New Looks for Classic Hotels 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Some also took time to correct the tweet’s claim that they were “emotional support falcons.” Passenger claims men boarded flight with 'emotional support falcons' in viral tweet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Volunteers for Wildlife will show live birds of prey, teaching how to identify hawks, owls and falcons. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Peregrine falcons sometimes use high-rise buildings as their aeries; ospreys can occupy man-made platforms to raise their chicks; and committees of vultures sometimes take over dumpsters, said Ms. McDonald, a 62-year-old U.S. Life Is Hazardous for Urban Raptors. These Women Offer Hope. 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Joshua Hammer, a frequent contributor to the Travel section, is working on a book about the international falcon trade. A Birder’s Paradise in Zimbabwe 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z A “Flintstones”-themed tourist attraction in Arizona will soon become a wildlife education facility called Raptor Ranch, to be focused on falcons and falconry. 'Flintstones'-themed tourist attraction is sold off, will be turned into falconry center 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z His visual descriptions are mimetic—as if the reader’s eye on the page followed a painter’s brush, the falcon reeling and refracted in sunlight painted by Tintoretto, in falling darkness by Rouault. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The story of an abused teenager and his falcon, it remains one of the director's best-known works in the UK. Ken Loach wins Berlin's Golden Bear 2014-02-14T13:57:24Z A few yards away, a peregrine falcon sat in a tree, perhaps sensing a potential lunch in all this commotion. In Make Music Winter, Critics Find Their Inner Yodelers and Pilgrims 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Yet he seemed to hover over us, with shoulders spread like the wings of a falcon. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z It's the biggest falcon in the world, and it's a bird of the foreign north. “They don't realize how deeply racial bias permeates”: Central Park birder on where liberals fail 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z “When I was 14, I spotted a peregrine falcon eating a pigeon on my windowsill in the Bronx,” Jason Ward says. The Week in Arts: Idris Elba, Taking on War and José González 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z The falcon, that is, not the Worsthorne, who, being a Tory of the old school, is less likely to be successful at adapting to the modern world. Inside the Perfect Predator and The Air Hospital | TV Review 2010-03-26T06:45:00Z “They are scared of nobody, they attack even peregrine falcons.” Migrating birds of prey draw visitors to the Florida Keys 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Keep your eyes peeled: hawks and falcons are frequent visitors in the skies above. The country’s eight most beautiful campgrounds 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z His task now done, the falcon rosea spark ablaze with joyful news;he lit the stars, he lit the moonthen vanished in the arc of sunthat dawned beyond the Southern Cross beyond the Southern Cross. Carols for Christmas 2010-12-18T00:07:31Z There are hundreds of species: egrets, gulls, vultures, falcons, red knots, hawks, albatrosses, eagles, skuas, red plovers and several species that don’t exist anywhere else in the world. Bahia Bustamante: Argentina?s Secret (and Private) Answer to the Galapagos 2011-03-04T19:59:37Z The falcons watch it impassively, except when they are hooded or on the wing. Review: ‘Aloft’ Trains an Eagle Eye on Human Misery 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In April, video footage of two men boarding their flight with “emotional support falcons” went viral on social media. Passengers behaving badly: 10 of the craziest things that happened on airplanes in 2019 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z The expensive birds, which likely are not "emotional support falcons," quickly caught the attention of social media. Passenger claims men boarded flight with 'emotional support falcons' in viral tweet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Max happens to see a falcon on the day we meet him. In an Enchanted World, Echoes of Today’s Political Dramas 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Cromwell’s falcons are named after his two daughters, who, with his beloved wife, died in London’s intermittent epidemics. “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z The knights, who date back to the Crusades, were given Malta as their home by the Church in return for a nominal annual fee: a single Malta-trained hunting falcon. Malta, the island nation just below Sicily, is an increasingly popular stopover 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z It depicts Humphrey Bogart holding the statue of the falcon. Postal stamp honors Hollywood director John Huston 2011-08-16T18:29:08Z The tweet went viral and amassed over 2 million views and hundreds of supportive – and educational – comments about traveling with falcons. Passenger claims men boarded flight with 'emotional support falcons' in viral tweet 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Resin falcons are painted white to mimic porcelain, and a pair of Warholesque portraits of the owner by the artist Skid Stewart hang over a daybed. T Magazine: The Importance of Being Nicky 2014-04-10T16:46:16Z Mr. Ancarani’s calm, fixed gaze serves as its own commentary, whether it’s trained on dozens of S.U.V.s massing in the desert or on men lovingly tending to their falcons. The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z She read the classic texts, absorbed precociously the upper-class terms associated with falconry and later flew her own falcons. Finding solace in the skies: Helen Macdonald’s memoir ‘H is for Hawk’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It's not essentially to do with money: if you're a kid who goes to a museum and tries to draw a peregrine falcon, that's your art world. Portrait of the artist: Douglas Gordon, artist 2010-05-17T21:20:00Z “It took me years to work out that this glorification of falcons was partly down to who got to fly them,” she says. Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The falcon, sighted, “glided through lombardy poplars, a full fed pike between reeds.” Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z There is indeed plenty of coded imagery — lions and gazelles; falcons and pigeons; a ripe garden — in these pithy verses, a few of which date as far back as pre-Islamic times. Review | ‘We Wrote in Symbols’ is a groundbreaking collection of Arab women writing about love and lust 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Look for peregrine falcons, blue herons and other types of birds, but beware of duck hunters between October and January. Fresh produce, Sound views and more fill out a fun Skagit Valley day trip this fall 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z It is said that the ruins are haunted — which fascinates Max, of course — and that the souls of the “hidden ones” return to the ruins each year on the wings of the peregrine falcon. In an Enchanted World, Echoes of Today’s Political Dramas 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The school houses six eagles, four falcons and 36 hawks; the latter are available to beginners every day but Christmas for falconry lessons in the expansive garden. Death from Above: Falconry in Scotland 2011-09-29T16:25:00Z Explore Class II and Class III rapids and see wildlife such as osprey and peregrine falcons while rafting the Red Rock Canyon area of the Shoshone River. Yellowstone during the pandemic: Reliably magnificent 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z A peregrine falcon rose, plummeted into the crater, circled back up and disappeared inside a crevice. In Chilean Patagonia, Following a Track to the End of the World 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Up above, I spotted a golden eagle soaring on the drafts, and in the distance, I caught a glimpse of a prairie falcon diving at some doomed ground-dwelling creature. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The shelves lining its walls contain two decades’ worth of his work, along with bins of colorful housedresses, a hollowed-out falcon missing its head and several busts that look only vaguely human. An Artist Who Makes Use of Housedresses, Resin and Sound 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Setting Riverside Pitches 10 Activities Fishing, kayaking, birdwatching Griffon vulture, alpine swift, peregrine falcon … If you’re already reaching for the binoculars, this Catalonian campsite, around 200km west of Barcelona, will not disappoint. 20 of the best campsites in Europe 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z After ornithologists notified Christo that a species of falcon nested in the Arc de Triomphe every spring, the project was postponed from April to September of this year to avoid disrupting the birds. It’s Christo’s Final Show. But Is It the Last We’ll See of Him? 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Downtown sightings of such wild creatures as snowy owls, peregrine falcons and vultures may generate media attention, but after perusing Howard Youth’s “Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington, D.C.,” ‘Field Guide to the Natural World of Washington, D.C.’ displays a city’s wildlife The polymathic Macdonald — historian of science, naturalist, poet, illustrator and one-time falcon breeder for the royal family of the United Arab Emirates. Helen Macdonald’s ‘Vesper Flights’ Sees Wonder — and Refuge — in the Natural World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z At one point a falcon alights on his gloved wrist, and both the bird and Ferry turn to the camera at exactly the same moment — a feat of directing, or possibly of luck. In Nell Zink’s ‘Avalon,’ a Young Woman Is Too Busy for Revenge 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z There were reports of increased poaching of leopards and tigers in India, an uptick in the smuggling of falcons in Pakistan, and a surge in trafficking of rhino horns in South Africa and Botswana. For Planet Earth, No Tourism Is a Curse and a Blessing 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z Scope out rare wood frogs, native brook trout, peregrine falcons and more residing in these picturesque parts. Last-minute road trips to take in the South over Labor Day weekend 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z He’s so deep into his subject that he almost morphs into a Peregrine falcon himself. Werner Herzog on Why You’ll Never Find Him on Facebook or Twitter 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Marian utterly rejects the gallant respect for her femininity, which she knows is just a pretty way of keeping her tethered and hooded like a tame falcon. Review | Maggie Shipstead’s ‘Great Circle’ is a soaring work of historical fiction and a perfect summer novel 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z The peregrine falcon, for example, can glide hundreds of feet in the air, then use its extraordinary vision and aerodynamics to dive at prey at speeds of over 320 km/h. Death from Above: Falconry in Scotland 2011-09-29T16:25:00Z Like most stories of obsession, the book is a record of desire—in this case Baker’s quest to observe, follow, and ultimately become one with a falcon. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Later, with the help of binoculars, I spied a peregrine falcon imperiously perched above a ravine. A sip-to-sip tour of the ‘Sonoma of Spain’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “I hear your voice saying its say,” she writes, “I hear its will railing through my body. … It’s a falcon of words.” In a Sister’s Elegies, Proof That the Art of Losing Can Bring Comfort 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Other paintings that will be part of the exhibition include an elephant on a crest, a falcon and an intricate purse made in the shape of a frog. Guinea pig portrait is revealed 2013-08-20T12:49:08Z The falcon is there, where he thinks it will be, on an overhead wire. Time Out: The Beauty of J. A. Baker’s “The Peregrine” 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Walter Huston famously appears in a cameo role as the man who delivers the falcon. ‘The Maltese Falcon’ returns to theaters at ripe age of 80 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Later, there’s a scene where the same falcon is clearly meant to step on a rose, but the bird hesitates and misses. In Nell Zink’s ‘Avalon,’ a Young Woman Is Too Busy for Revenge 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Prairie falcons that nest in those walls soar through the air. Is it worth sacrificing a healthy river to help preserve a safe planet? 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z American alligators, Channel Island foxes, peregrine falcons, and bald eagles were all species that were in trouble and successfully went through this process. Endangered Species Act 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Photographer Jack Zhi's dramatic picture of a female peregrine falcon protecting her young has won this year's Bird Photographer of the Year award. Peregrine Falcon image wins bird photo award 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z In flight, the Eurasian kestrel is mostly silent, a small falcon that seems to defy physics as it faces the wind and hovers in midair, tail spread out like a fan. A 12,000-Year-Old Bird Call, Made of Bird Bones 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z The clade—called the Telluraves—includes parrots, falcons, owls, and songbirds and began to diversify shortly after the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Without hands, some birds wing it with their feet 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z They're no longer afraid of humans — at least those who haven't been consumed by the resident falcon at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Donald Trump has gone off the deep end for real: He's a danger to humanity 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z The dead birds were mostly ravens and raptors, the group that includes eagles, hawks and falcons. Electrocution Isn’t the Main Thing Killing Birds Along Power Lines 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z "For four years, I attempted to capture the rare sight of the female falcon attacking large brown pelicans with incredible speed and agility," he said. Peregrine Falcon image wins bird photo award 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z But when peregrine falcons chased him, he panicked and took flight. Eryri: Petrified parrot and owner rescued up mountain 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Parrots are a notable exception—but some scientists believe early parrots were hunters like owls and falcons, bestowing their modern, fruit- and seed-eating descendants with adept grasping abilities, he says. Without hands, some birds wing it with their feet 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Among the animals housed at the Refugio Animal Cascada, which translates to Waterfall Animal Refuge, are foxes, falcons, owls and pumas. In wake of disasters, Chile animal shelter offers hope to wildlife 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z “He thought when everything went kerflooey, this is where he would go. The island itself is so beautiful. There’s an area called Chieftain’s Leap, with soaring cliffs, where peregrine falcons make their nests.” David Gilmour, Who Brought Fiji’s Water to the Masses, Dies at 91 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Birding mystery: What happened to this flashy falcon? A Religious School That’s Also a Public School 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Even in the middle of the city, you can find house sparrows, starlings, pigeons, peregrine falcons. How to Start Birding 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z “They make a lot of noise, but they’re not too intimidating,” he said, adding that there were “a couple of stoops in there,” referring to a falcon’s hunting dive. Fuzzy falcon chicks who nest at Michigan State football stadium get tracking bands 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z A photographer has captured the moment a peregrine falcon flew off with a puffin in its talons at a nature reserve. Peregrine falcon snatches puffin at Bempton Cliffs 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z The region is vital to not only bird species such as piping plovers and northern aplomado falcons but also Gulf Coast jaguarundi, ocelots, and critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles. Federal lawsuit aims to protect Texas from "exploding rockets" of Elon Musk 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z Or head above the highway to Cape Horn Overlook for a safer stop and to spot peregrine falcons — their nesting closes trail portions until mid-July. Road trip to the Columbia River Gorge: Resorts and recreation | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Raptor Study, which monitors nests for falcons, owls and hawks. After a record wet winter, Southern California can expect more birds, wildflowers and snakes 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Until then, viewers at home can follow along as the baby falcons grow up. Fuzzy falcon chicks who nest at Michigan State football stadium get tracking bands 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Female thorny devils, a spiky lizard endemic to Australia, are a favorite target for falcons during breeding season because the lizards hold dozens of eggs in their belly. Why Are Killer Whales Ripping Livers Out of Their Shark Prey? 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z Once they emerge, these chicks will join a bird dynasty that boasts an online fandom that follows the falcons’ movements with the rapt attention an audience might give to a reality TV show. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z "The good news is, if we can just lower those lead deaths to a reasonable level, there's every reason to think condors will bounce back, much like bald eagles and peregrine falcons have." Newest flock of wild California condors faces an old threat: lead poisoning 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z While Castner Range is off-limits to people, it provides habitat for an array of wildlife, including the American peregrine falcon, the golden eagle, the black-tailed prairie dog and the Texas horned lizard. Biden sets protections for a half-million acres in Texas and Nevada 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z London's peregrine falcons were forced to eat more parakeets during lockdown, scientists have found. London falcons swapped eating pigeons for parakeets in lockdown 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z In falcon nests, “you’ll find two to three dozen carcasses of the thorny devils, all with the bellies ripped open and the eggs gone,” Dickman says. Why Are Killer Whales Ripping Livers Out of Their Shark Prey? 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z “I wish I understood falcon language,” one person wrote in the comments. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Behind the site, the massive falcon wings of the under-construction Zayed National Museum rise overhead as workers climbed through its scaffolding on Tuesday. Abrahamic House in UAE houses a church, synagogue and mosque 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z The CIA began flying armed Predator drones from Pakistan with Musharraf’s blessing, using an airstrip built by the founding president of the United Arab Emirates for falconing in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler in 9/11 wars, dies 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z In the subsequent periods monitored, pigeons made up almost 50% of the falcons' diet. London falcons swapped eating pigeons for parakeets in lockdown 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z In the 1980s, Montemaggiori said, some Rome administrators suggested trying to expand the falcon population as a way to contend with the starlings. Rome’s starlings create a stunning spectacle -- and a huge mess Since 2016 when the first falcon couple made a nest atop the tower, viewers have come to see the birds as having distinct personalities, although experts say falcons shouldn’t be viewed through such a lens. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The glaciers that gouged the region over the past 2 million years left behind a rugged terrain that is now home to wolves, moose, bobcats, beavers, bald eagles and peregrine falcons. Biden protects vast wilderness area in Minnesota from mining 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Two bona fide animal celebrities — one a puma, the other an alligator — made the news this year, along with falcons, tarantulas, hawks, pigs, pythons and a duck. Are L.A.’s parrots getting louder? We investigate 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z "Now that the pigeons are back in the city, the peregrine falcons have gone back to primarily eating them." London falcons swapped eating pigeons for parakeets in lockdown 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z But it was quickly pointed out that falcons prey on only one bird a night. Rome’s starlings create a stunning spectacle -- and a huge mess The Cal Falcons group managed to create a safe site for the falcons to nest. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Drones drag pigeons high into the sky to teach the falcons to hunt. Your Friday Briefing 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Drones drag pigeons high into the sky, to teach the falcons to hunt. Your Friday Briefing: The U.S. Will Train More Ukraine Troops 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It's thought peregrine falcons, the world's fastest birds, first moved to UK cities in the 1990s, attracted by the abundance of pigeons. London falcons swapped eating pigeons for parakeets in lockdown 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z With so many birds swirling together, it’s hard for a predator, like a peregrine falcon, to lock in on any one target. Rome’s starlings create a stunning spectacle -- and a huge mess The other falcon could have been one of the falcons who attacked Grinnell, experts said at the time. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z GPS tracking devices also help falconers avoid losing their birds: The best racing falcons are worth millions of dollars. Your Friday Briefing 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z As if sensing a shift in the air, the falcon tilted its head, ruffled its pointed wings and took off in pursuit. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z London has one of the densest peregrine falcon population, with around 40 breeding pairs in London. London falcons swapped eating pigeons for parakeets in lockdown 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z There’s a small population of falcons living year-round in Rome. Rome’s starlings create a stunning spectacle -- and a huge mess Peregrine falcon populations sharply declined from the 1950s through the ’70s with the liberal use of the pesticide DDT, according to ornithologists who study the species. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Designated a National Wildlife Area in 2022, it's home to a diverse mix of northern wildlife, including woodland caribou, peregrine falcons, wood bison, wolverines and rusty blackbirds, according to Canadian government data. The world is struggling to figure out conservation. First Nations have some ideas 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z In the sky above him, his falcon dipped and swerved, drawing closer and closer to the pigeon as the drone pulled the prey through the sky. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr Mak said: "I am all for natural biological pest control and the peregrine falcons eating parakeets is a good way of controlling their population." London falcons swapped eating pigeons for parakeets in lockdown 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z “When you see the starlings make these tight balls, that means there is a falcon next to them,” said Montemaggiori, the ornithologist. Rome’s starlings create a stunning spectacle -- and a huge mess The private piano teacher has long been fascinated by wildlife, but when Prestridge started following the Berkeley falcons in 2019, she found herself regularly checking the webcam feed. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Spread across the property were 1,000 sheep, eight Arabian oryx, four horses, two camels and one falcon — what Mr. Al Misned called his working farm — cultivated over the past decade. His Estate Has 3 Swimming Pools and a Stable. He Says He’s Not Rich. 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Before that, the men would attach a pigeon to a kite and release it into the sky for the falcons to chase. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Different species of hawks, falcons, kites, vultures and eagles stream over the mountains or near the ocean during the August-November period to escape the onset of the boreal winter. In Mexico, birdwatching offers fragile lifeline for nature, economy 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z For centuries, Arabs across the region have used falcons to hunt and recited poems extolling their virtues. Falcon tradition inspires passion in World Cup host Qatar 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z She was so inspired by the falcons that she decided to take a birding class so she could identify birds in her own neighborhood. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z He was, though, not much of a falcon guy, he explained as the bird of prey perched on his arm. His Estate Has 3 Swimming Pools and a Stable. He Says He’s Not Rich. 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z The faster the falcon moves its wings, the more advanced a hunter it is, Mr. al-Mohannadi said. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Nowhere is that clash of past and present more apparent than at the market’s falcon hospital, a state-of-the-art medical facility dedicated to caring for animals that have been revered here for centuries. Subsidized healthcare for falcons? Qatar's love for falconry permeates its culture 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z “The way that we deal with falcons says so much about our relationship with the desert, with nature. It brings us back to the basics of life.” Falcon tradition inspires passion in World Cup host Qatar 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z “I’m here in Orange County watching a webcam, but in my own backyard there’s a pair of falcons,” Prestridge said. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z His friend — who is a falcon guy — had given the animal to him as a gift earlier this year. His Estate Has 3 Swimming Pools and a Stable. He Says He’s Not Rich. 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z The men then raced to where the falcon had landed to retrieve it, the dead pigeon clasped in its long, curved talons. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z “For Arabs, falconry was a way of life where every household, irrespective of their social or tribal status, enjoyed the presence of falcons around them. Falcons would be considered part of the family.” Subsidized healthcare for falcons? Qatar's love for falconry permeates its culture 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Lines of falcons, tethered to perches, waited to be appraised on Saturday. Falcon tradition inspires passion in World Cup host Qatar 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z The group Cal Falcons, which is not part of the university, watches over the nest and posts video clips to social media channels with updates on how the falcons are holding up. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z But, every once in a while they come across more exotic animals such as a falcon or a camel. Tacoma man rescues Ukrainian animals injured and left behind during war 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Wrapped around the falcon’s ankle was a small bracelet inscribed with Mr. al-Humaidi’s phone number, in case the bird did not return to him during training and someone found it perched on their roof. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z One man, wearing a yellow leather glove as protection against razor-sharp talons, carried a falcon down one of the wide hallways. Subsidized healthcare for falcons? Qatar's love for falconry permeates its culture 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Falcon clubs, beauty contests and races have sprouted up in the desert of Qatar and across the Arabian Peninsula, causing falcon prices to surge, traders say. Falcon tradition inspires passion in World Cup host Qatar 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z In one clip, the falcons noisily chirp at each other as rain pelts their nest and they scramble to sit on the eggs. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z One of the things that Torie Huddleston likes about Burlington are its birds — the bald eagles, hawks, falcons and snowy owls that soar above the college greens and the lake. The Bike Thieves of Burlington, Vermont 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Losing one of the birds could be expensive: The best racing falcons are worth millions of dollars and even those kept as pets often run into the tens of thousands. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z A Saudi prince once bought individual seats on a commercial flight for 80 of his falcons. Subsidized healthcare for falcons? Qatar's love for falconry permeates its culture 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Nowhere is the love of falcons more evident than Doha’s nearby Souq Waqif Falcon Hospital - an entire medical facility devoted to the expert treatment and care of the birds. Falcon tradition inspires passion in World Cup host Qatar 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z In late 2016, two peregrine falcons were spotted on the Berkeley campus, and in the following months a makeshift nest was found on top of a sandbag on the clock tower. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The queen — also on horseback — welcomes, a falcon is released and sails through the arena, carnations are tossed to the crowd. The peasants are revolting! Medieval Times workers in Buena Park to vote on unionizing 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z It was a peregrine, one of two kinds of falcons that dominate in the Gulf, and a species known for its speed and courage, as well as sensitivity. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s why a 7½-ton, 40-foot steel and aluminum statue of a fearsome-looking — if kitschy — falcon was installed last year outside the departures terminal of Doha’s international airport. Subsidized healthcare for falcons? Qatar's love for falconry permeates its culture 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Surgeons mend broken falcon bones, file their excessively long nails and conduct full-body bird X-rays. Falcon tradition inspires passion in World Cup host Qatar 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Again, these are merely birds doing their thing, Peterson said, but he can understand how the falcons remind their fans of parents taking care of their children. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Nearby is a state-of-the-art falcon hospital and just beyond that is a camel pen, home to dozens of animals. World Cup 2022: What to do, see and eat in Qatar 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z As the blood-red sun slipped below the horizon, the men packed up their blankets and tea and placed the falcons back in their Land Cruisers. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Protecting the investments of royals and commoners explains why hospitals such as Alkarkhi’s treat as many as 150 falcons a day. Subsidized healthcare for falcons? Qatar's love for falconry permeates its culture 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z As they fluttered overhead, Al Mohannadi, in his aviator sunglasses and traditional white robe, asked his falcon to choose the winner. Falcon tradition inspires passion in World Cup host Qatar 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z There are no jars of mashed bananas in a falcon’s nest. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z A bald eagle and a few seagulls fly over the bridge, and a peregrine falcon and waterfowl fly beneath it. Spanning the Narrows Bridge with Tacoma Unlikely Walkers & Hikers 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z In one of the contests, the falcons race to catch pigeons that have been trained all year to evade them. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z During the peak season, from September to February, the falcon perch in the hospital’s waiting room frequently becomes so crowded it needs a waiting room of its own. Subsidized healthcare for falcons? Qatar's love for falconry permeates its culture 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z But over the past few years, Melburnians have increasingly become aware of the lives in the skies above them, with a pair of peregrine falcons nesting in the city’s financial district attracting intense public interest. In Melbourne, a Sky-High Drama Takes Hold 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z By 1973, there were only five peregrine falcon nesting sites in California, Bell said. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z And New Zealand has no predatory falcons, while Alaska offers secure habitat. The Godwit’s Long, Long Nonstop Journey 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Last year the pigeons were so good that they evaded capture by every single falcon entered. In Qatar, the Ancient Sport of Falconry Gets Some Upgrades 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z If you’re lucky, you might spot a golden eagle, northern goshawk, peregrine falcon or a merlin. Eight great places to see the Mid-Atlantic’s migrating birds 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In wilder places, peregrine falcons rear their chicks, or eyeases, in the protected nooks of cliff faces, where they have an easy vantage point to watch for prey and possible intruders. In Melbourne, a Sky-High Drama Takes Hold 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z “I still have to pinch myself when I see a peregrine falcon: ‘Wow, they’re back. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The parcel is in the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve, a 135-acre bluff-top park where thousands of birds, including peregrine falcons, flock. A wealthy O.C. insider fenced off public land in Newport's Back Bay. When will it open? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z What is their velocity after impact if the falcon’s velocity is initially 28.0 m/s and the dove’s velocity is 7.00 m/s in the same direction? College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z The beads were arranged in the shape of a falcon, with the falcon's head beneath and beside the man's head. We won't be the first civilization to collapse — but we may well be the last 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z He says that the Collins Street pair are the only peregrine falcons known to be nesting in the Melbourne area, where a reliable prey base allows them to use their best food-catching weapon: speed. In Melbourne, a Sky-High Drama Takes Hold 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The Berkeley falcons made their nest in an unlikely place, and it’s unclear if they will remain atop the bell tower for another season. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The mission: help prevent the predatory falcons from gobbling up piping plovers — highly endangered shorebirds that nest nearby. Troubled species rebound — only to make things worse for others animals in peril 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The University of Bristol team filmed animals including foxes, deer, peregrine falcons and kingfishers to make BRISTOL: A Hidden Eden. Bristol students' 'sensational' film uncovers city's animals 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z During the early summer, you may also see falcon fledglings playing in the air and honing their flying skills. What Californians Need to Know About Monkeypox 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s not just the falcons’ physical feats that fascinate people. In Melbourne, a Sky-High Drama Takes Hold 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Four falcon eggs atop a bell tower at UC Berkeley are about to get a crack at fame as they join a storied lineage at the university. Four eggs and a bell tower: Peregrine falcon chicks set to hatch at UC Berkeley in livestream 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z The small falcons are “are a big threat to their recovery,” said Nathan Cooper, a research ecologist with Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Troubled species rebound — only to make things worse for others animals in peril 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z “You could have a large falcon that would terrify everything, but after a couple days … if it doesn’t physically chase them and try to eat them and kill them, it’s not a threat.” Meet Rufus, the hawk who keeps pigeons away from Wimbledon 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z A hawk and a falcon in the mews where Erik Swanson keeps some of his five hawks and 12 falcons. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “A lot of people thought Brexit was going to change everything,” said Mr. Hayes, as he gazed at peregrine falcons nesting in the steeple of Wakefield’s cathedral. In Two Elections, North and South, Boris Johnson Risks a Sharp Rebuke 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Peregrine falcons hadn’t been at the park in West Virginia for much of the past 70 years. Peregrine falcon chicks take flight at Harpers Ferry 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Resurgent peregrine falcons menace endangered California least terns and Western snowy plovers that take refuge at naval bases near San Diego. Troubled species rebound — only to make things worse for others animals in peril 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The female was released close to where the male lived and seemed to quickly adapt to her new life, eating wild food and avoiding an attack by a falcon. Two decades after it vanished, the stunning Spix’s macaw returns to its forest home 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Over the course of a summer in Ocean City, Swanson’s hawks and falcons will sometimes go rogue and attack a gull. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z A sign announced why: It was the breeding season of peregrine falcons. In New York’s Shawangunk Mountains, old haunts and old friends 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z Peregrine falcons are considered one of the fastest-flying birds in the world and reach speeds of up to 240 mph when they dive or “stoop” to hunt, park experts said. Peregrine falcon chicks take flight at Harpers Ferry 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z In Southern California, least terns and snowy plovers are no match for attacking peregrine falcons, which like eagles bounced back after the ban on DDT. Troubled species rebound — only to make things worse for others animals in peril 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z For example, by studying the eggs of peregrine falcons and other birds, scientists were able to prove that a pesticide called DDT was causing egg thinning, leading to nesting failures. Some birds are laying eggs earlier. Scientists are paying attention. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z For the gulls, however, Swanson’s current five hawks, 12 falcons and Eurasian eagle-owl are much better than the typical alternative. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z But even more compelling than our tasty picnics was our modus operandi: Instead of “hiking,” we’d be going on a quest to find the rare Eleonora’s falcon. Introducing city kids to nature in the hinterlands of Sardinia 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Peregrine falcons still face threats from humans and development. Peregrine falcon chicks take flight at Harpers Ferry 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z One of the most diverse groups of wildlife to thrive here in the Pacific Northwest, especially since the 1990s, are raptors, which include hawks, falcons, bald eagles, kestrels and owls. Seattle is home to many raptors. These volunteers protect them from the dangers of city living 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z “Bald eagles, ospreys and peregrine falcons have all made spectacular recoveries since DDT was banned,” Bates says. Some birds are laying eggs earlier. Scientists are paying attention. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Hawks and falcons are different types of birds. The Ancient Art of Falconry at the Jersey Shore 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z We were looking for falcons and the golden eagle that nests in the craggy cliffs. Introducing city kids to nature in the hinterlands of Sardinia 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z |
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