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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FALCOMK lAKlNC. 1I.\(,C,A1.D PEIT.CRINE 1 ROM IHL BOW-NLELURED THITHER BY THE BAIT PIGEON Nearby is the sock into which the hawk will be thrust, while jesses and bell are attaciied to the legs.Much skill and dexterity are required, for an outraged falcon is no easy thing to handle, and can inflictsevere punishment with its great needle-sharp talons. The beak, though a capable weapon, is not usedeven in self-defense. XIV
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HAWKS THAT ARE THE FRIENDS OF MANLarge, conspicuous hawks are all of great economic value, being the principal natural check on the hordes ofnoxious rodents that, if unmolested, would soon render agriculture unprofitable. The large soaring, circlinghawks of the open country are not the ones that molest the farmers poultry, but are the ones that hold incheck the field-niice, gophers, ground-squirrels, mole-crickets and grasshoppers that annually cost the countrymany millions of dollars through their depredations on crops, orchards and forage. XV

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