Falcon
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Berry, Robert 137
Bilibin, Ivan 74
Birdcam see webcams
bird-strikes 150–53
black falcon 30
Blaine, Gilbert 85–6
Bodio, Stephen 16, 112–14
Bogart, Humphrey 47–8, 48
Boke of St Albans, The 52
Bourdon, Sébastian 82
breeding falcons 42–6, 134–6
British Falconers Club 111, 129
British Sea Power rock group 57, 58
Buchan, John 111
Island of Sheep 109
Burton, Sir Richard 104
Burton, Robert 100
C4ISR 165, 170
Cade, Tom 113–14, 136, 139–44
Canada 40, 135, 180–82, 135, 185–6, 192
Canadian Peregrine Foundation 189–91, 190
Canning, Richard, The Painted Tent 77
Canterbury Tale, A 155, 156
Carnie, Kent 8
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring 131
celebrity 40, 118, 183, 184
Center for Conservation Research and Technology (CCRT) 168–9, 168
Central Asia 55, 62, 67–8, 81, 84, 104, 145–6
Chardin, Sir John 104–5
Cheseman, Robert 87
Chrysler Building, New York 178, 179
Chumash people 53, 65
climate change 12
Codex Capodilista 98
conservation philosophy 118–21, 141–4, 147
Craighead, Frank and John 127, 165–7, 169
Crusades 102
D’Arcussia, Charles 62, 67, 69, 101, 140
Day, J. Wentworth 111
DDT see pesticides
Edge, Rosalie 47, 124
Egyptian mythology 59–62, 60, 61, 67, 120
Emeshe 63–4, 63
espionage 92, 163–4
evolution 20
F-16 ‘Fighting Falcon’ 151
fables 51, 74
Falcon, The (superhero) 73
Falcon and the Snowman, The 164
falconry equipment 6, 71–2, 80, 91–2, 93–6, 95, 96
Falcons, The, American football team 57
fascism 50, 176–7
Fathiab, Mohamed 68
feathers 24, 37, 38, 45, 54–5, 72, 147, 162, 163
Finist the Falcon 72
flight 20, 33–8, 45, 89
Ford Falcon car 58, 59
Fox, Nick 115
Frederick II of Hohenstaufen 102, 103
French, Thomas 194
Fyfe, Richard 135, 137, 139
gamekeepers 122, 146–7
Genghis Khan 63, 148
George, Jean Craighead, My Side of the Mountain 77
Glasier, Philip 97
Goering, Hermann 8, 26, 27, 163–4
Goodwin, George 158
goshawks 9–11
Gott, Erin 17
Greenland 17, 25, 40, 43, 163–4, 166
grey falcon 30
gyrfalcon 13, 17, 21, 24–8, 25, 26, 33, 37, 40, 43, 44, 52, 53, 56, 97, 103–4, 105, 124
H is for Hawk 7, 9, 11
habitat 12, 42–4, 145–6, 186
hacking 140–41
Hafez 68–9
Hagar, Joseph 124–6, 128–9
Hall, George Harper 180–81
Harting, J. E., Ornithology of Shakespeare 93, 122
Haut Vol 89–91, 91
Havilland, Olivia de 82
Hawk Mountain 124
Hickey, Joseph 131–2, 178
Hierakonpolis 59
Hines, Barry, Kes 77
Holbein, Hans 87
hoods 6, 71, 80, 88, 93–4, 95, 99, 102
Horus 59–62, 66
hunting strategies 27, 35–7, 88–93, 186
Illingworth, Frank 97, 154–5
imperialism 106–9
India 22, 29, 72–3, 105–6, 107, 178
Iran 23, 24, 62, 65, 68–9
Japan 84, 85
Jarnefelt, Eero Nicolai 45
Jones, David, The Lord of Venedotia 177
Karok people 43
Kazakhstan 55–6, 63
Kes 77
Khan, Great 104
Knight, C.W.R. 126–7
Kodak 191–3
Kristina, queen of Sweden 82
Kushlak the knight 67
Kyrgyzstan 39, 51, 55, 63
lanner falcon 28, 29–30, 33, 38, 40, 41, 108, 135, 144, 151
Le Guin, Ursula K., A Wizard of Earthsea 75, 75
Leo X, Pope 101
Leopold, Aldo 169
Lodge, George 42
London 174–6, 175, 198
Louis XIII, king of France 81, 106
lugger falcon 146, 178
Mabel (hawk) 11
MacClure, Thomas 157–9
Maechtle, Tom 141, 169
Mafia, the 182
Maltese Falcon, The 47–8, 48
Marchetti, Gustave Henri 107
Martini, Simone 49
Mattox, William 166
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 99
Meinertzhagen, Colonel Richard 54
Meredith, Captain Luff 40, 159–60, 163
migration 28, 39–41, 166–8
Mongolia 29, 43, 44, 144–5
moon landings 162, 163
mummified falcons 61, 120
My Side of the Mountain 77
Nâsar al-Din, Shah of Persia 112
New York City 76–7, 178–82, 186, 188–9
New Zealand falcon 29, 30, 36
Nietzsche, Friedrich 174, 176
Norse legend 65, 73
Nye, Alva 166
Oracle Corporation 191
orange-breasted falcon 30
Pace, Richard 101
Painted Tent, The 77
Pakistan 29, 36, 40, 82, 146, 178
peregrine falcon
near-extinction and recovery 128–47
species description 16–19
Peregrine Fund, The 136–8, 138, 141, 143, 143, 166, 185
Peregrine’s Saga, The 123, 176
persecution 121–4, 146–7
pesticides 12, 116, 120–21, 128–34, 144, 149, 169, 183
Peterson, Roger Tory 125
pigeon-keepers 40, 130, 147, 153–4, 157–8, 182
Pisanello, Young Falcon 6
poetry 65, 67–70, 72, 89–90, 193
Polo, Marco 104
Practical Taxidermy 122
prairie falcon 30, 39, 42, 43, 66, 124, 135, 162, 163
Raptor Research Foundation 134, 196
Ratcliffe, Derek 129–32
reversed size dimorphism (RSD) 20
Richard I, king of England 103
Richmond, W. Kenneth 16, 23
Rochester, New York 178, 191–2, 192
Royal Air Force 35
Royal Loo Hawking Club 91
Royal Tenebaums, The 76, 77
RSPCA 114
St John of the Cross 69
saker falcon 23, 27, 28–30, 33, 36, 36, 39, 43, 44, 88, 89, 107, 116, 119, 144–7, 145
Saladin 103
Salt Lake City 198
Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group 135, 191
satellite-tracking 165–71, 167, 171
Saudi Arabia 100, 146
Scarlett (falcon, Baltimore) 183–5, 184
sexual metaphors 70–71
Shakespeare, William 70, 91–3, 93
shamanism 64–7, 73
Siberia 44, 65
Sibi-Jâkata 72–3
Silent Spring 131
skyscrapers 178–83, 179
smuggling 23, 106, 116, 121, 146
Snake River, Idaho 43
Sokar 59, 61
Sokol (organization) 56
Somerville, William, ‘Field Sports’ 89–90
South America 30, 40, 84–5, 144, 170
Southern, Harry 128
Springfield, Massachusetts 194–5
Stabler, Robert 158–60
Stephen, king of England 53
Stevens, Ronald 153–4
sublime 143, 179
Sufism 68–9
Sun Life Falcons 180–81
Sword in the Stone, The 77–8
Tamerlane 56
taxidermy 122–3, 122
telemetry 96
territory 24, 42–3, 46, 151–2
Three-dollar Bar Billy 68
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, Sr 106
totemism 54–8
trade in falcons 61–2, 105–6, 119, 120
training falcons 97–100, 109–10
Treleaven, Dick 129
Tucker, Vance 38
Tunnicliffe, Charles 173–5, 174
Turberville, George 89
Turul see Altai falcon
Tweedsmuir, Lord 97
United Arab Emirates 56, 83, 96
Upton, Roger 100
US Air Force 149, 159–62, 168, 171
Usamah Ibn-Muquidh 102
Virilio, Paul 165, 194
vision 30–32
Waller, Renz 26, 27
war
First World War 35, 123, Second World War 35, 141, 159
wartime falcon squadrons 153–61, 158, 159, 160, 161
Ward, F. Prescott 166
webcams 190–96
Webster, Harold 86–7, 109, 161
White, T. H. 71, 110–11
The Sword in the Stone 77–8, 79
White House 166–7
William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester 101
Williamson, Henry, The Peregrine’s Saga 123, 176
Wilson, Harold 134
Wizard of Earthsea, A 75, 75
world tree 65–6