Identifier: cu31924022546653 (find matches)
Title: Falconry, the sport of kings
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978. Eagle, king of birds, and his kin Fowler, Frederick Hall. Week-ends with the prairie falcon
Subjects: Falconry
Publisher: Washington, National Geographic Society

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A SPARROWHAWK MAKING A TRY FOR A BLACKBIRD Although too small and slight for regular game, the European Sparrowliawk, which closely resemblesour Sharp-shin (see color plate XVI), is uncommonly fierce and courageous, and makes spirited dashes at suchquarry as starlings and blackbirds. It is a hedgerow hunter, depending for success upon the intrepidity ofits onslaught and the pertinacity with which it follows its victim. It will even run through thick coverafter skulking quarry.
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