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Tuesday Tweet: Falconry

In his autobiography, My Life in Natural History, former Bell Museum preparator and director Walter Breckenridge provided a description of the Peregrine Falcon and an introduction to the sport of falconry: “One of my favorite birds is the peregrine falcon….


Tuesday Tweet: Baby Hawks

While it may be more common in this day and age to refer to little animals as “babies,” the slightly more academic terms “young” and “juvenile” were used by Thomas Sadler Roberts when he noted the age of the birds…