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Author: Josh Plattner Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 1629698725 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 27
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Check out the fabulous Peregrine Falcon! Kids will find out about its superpower and how it is the Master of Speed. They will also learn how it builds a nest and raises babies and discover how it helps humans. Readers can decide for themselves what kind of superhero a peregrine falcon could be! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author: Josh Plattner Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 1629698725 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 27
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Check out the fabulous Peregrine Falcon! Kids will find out about its superpower and how it is the Master of Speed. They will also learn how it builds a nest and raises babies and discover how it helps humans. Readers can decide for themselves what kind of superhero a peregrine falcon could be! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author: Natalie Lunis Publisher: Bearport Publishing ISBN: 193608872X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal in the world. It can fly at a speed of 68 miles per hour, and it can dive through the air at an even more amazing speed: 200 miles per hour! The falcons make these high-speed dives in order to catch other birds for food. They attack their prey in midair! These are just some of the fascinating facts kids will discover in the thrilling world of these swift birds of prey. Eye-popping photos and clear, easy-to-read text will engage emergent readers as they discover the anatomical features that help peregrine falcons reach fast speeds. A "Speed-o-Meter" graphic compares the peregrine falcon’s top speed to that of fastballs and roller coasters.
Author: Donald Paul Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 28
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Peregrine falcons are famous for their speed--in excess of 200 miles per hour--and their ability to capture prey in mid-flight. That same speed and a preference for inaccessible roosting locations means they are effectively unseen in the wild. They were not elusive enough, however, to avoid near-extinction.The Peregrine Falcon is a quick flier, averaging 40-55 km/h (25-34 mph) in voyaging flight, and arriving at speeds up to 112 km/h (69 mph) in direct pursuit for prey. During its fantastic chasing stoop from statures of more than 1 km (0.62 mi), the peregrine may arrive at paces of 320 km/h (200 mph) as it drops toward its prey.
Author: Clayton M. White Publisher: Lynx Edicions ISBN: 9788496553927 Category : Birds Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Perhaps beginning near the end of the Pleistocene, Peregrines began to acquire a vast cosmopolitan distribution, and set the stage for fascinating structural, behavioral, and population distinctions related to where they lived. Those divergences were driven by the various demands of landscapes as different as one can find on earth, including Greenland tundra, South Pacific islands, Utah arid scrublands, the cold wind-swept Aleutians, and warm, moist Indonesian forests. Modern Peregrines reveal that geographic isolation may befall even a creature renowned for great speed and mobility. Peregrine Falcons of the World brings together the lifetime experiences of the authors with this splendid falcon in the field and in museums, hundreds of personal accounts by Peregrine observers worldwide, a vast literature on this falcon which is surely among the best-studied birds, scores of superb photographic images so generously supplied, and the matchless art of Andrew Ellis. The goal is to provide a feel for how Peregrines have responded to their varied world, and to earmark the many gaps in what we know. Oddly, Peregrines have not colonized many places, where by any reckoning, they should be. In recent times, roughly twenty subspecies of Peregrines were described. The historical reasons for these designations, and our current analyses are provided here. Some populations are very distinct in form and color, but sometimes they geographically overlap and intergrades appear. Each subspecies account also describes distribution, hunting and nesting habitats, migration and wintering ranges, estimated population sizes, and conservation aspects. In the end, present day Peregrines appear in at least a score of populations experiencing different degrees of isolation and enjoying different rates of divergence. The challenge of understanding their relationships is sometimes made greater by almost complete lack of information or specimens from vast regions where neighboring subspecies apparently come together because no obvious barrier exists. But the Peregrine Falcon will never lack for serious aficionados. Field people around the world add to the growing literature almost weekly so that someday a more complete appreciation is inevitable." --Publisher's description.
Author: James H. Enderson Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292756216 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 414
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A superb success as a bird, combining great speed, aeronautical grace, and fearlessness...inhabitant of wild places, inaccessible cliffs, and skyscrapers...worldwide dweller, trans-equatorial migrant, and docile captive—the peregrine falcon stands alone among all others of its kind. Perhaps this is why so many varied people rushed to its aid when it faced decimation by pesticide poisoning. In this personal and highly entertaining memoir, Jim Enderson tells stories of a lifetime spent studying, training, breeding, and simply enjoying peregrine falcons. He recalls how his boyhood interest in raptors grew into an ornithological career in which he became one of the leading experts who helped identity DDT as the cause of the peregrine falcon's sudden and massive decline across the United States. His stories reveal both the dedication that he and fellow researchers brought to the task of studying and restoring the peregrine and the hair-raising adventures that sometimes befell them along the way. Enderson also seamlessly weaves in the biology and natural history of the peregrine, as well as anecdotes about its traditional and widespread use in falconry as an aggressive yet tractable hunter, to offer a broad portrait of this splendid and intriguing falcon.
Author: Melissa Ann Hill Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1496623983 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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Peregrine falcons plummet through the air at top speed to snag their favorite mealÑsmaller birds. Big, bold photos accompany carefully-leveled text on habitat, behavior, life cycle, and threats to this speedy raptor.
Author: Mike Unwin Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library ISBN: 9781403448620 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 54
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How many different species of falcon are there? When were peregrines first used for hunting? How fast can a peregrine fly? Peregrine Falcon answers these and other questions, including the wonderful question of how these birds were stopped from going down the road to extinction. Often, the increasing human population and its expanding cities crowd out wildlife. In this book you will learn how big cities played a role in helping these birds.
Author: Patrick Stirling-Aird Publisher: Bloomsbury Natural History ISBN: 9781472918666 Category : Peregrine falcon Languages : en Pages : 0
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Reaching speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour, the Peregrine Falcon is famous as the world's fastest bird. However, its penchant for choosing inaccessible places to breed, feed and roost mean that few people are well acquainted with its habits and behaviour. This title offers a window into the world of this bird.
Author: Joshua Hammer Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 150119190X Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 336
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A “well-written, engaging detective story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a “vivid tale of obsession and international derring-do” (Publishers Weekly), following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent on protecting the world’s birds of prey. “Masterfully constructed” (The New York Times) and “entertaining and illuminating” (The Washington Post), The Falcon Thief will whisk you away from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.
Author: Josh Plattner
Author: Josh Plattner
Author: Natalie Lunis
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Author: Joshua Hammer