How Fast Can A Falcon Dive?: Fascinating Answers to Questions about Birds of Prey (Animals Q & A) - Softcover

Capainolo, Professor Peter; Butler, Carol A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813547903 ISBN 13: 9780813547909

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2010

Synopsis

How Fast Can a Falcon Dive? explores the world of raptors in a way that will appeal to bird lovers and biology enthusiasts alike. This colorful volume is complete with more than fifty-five color and black and white images from photographers and artists around the world. In a reader friendly question and answer format, ornithologist Peter Capainolo and science writer Carol A. Butler define and classify raptors, explore the physical attributes of birds of prey, view how their bodies work, and explain the social and physical behaviors of these species-how they communicate, hunt, reproduce, and more. Capainolo, who received one of the first falconry licenses issued in New York state at age eighteen, relates his personal experience in falconry to describe raptor training and husbandry where the human-bird interactions are complex.

From stories of red-tailed hawks making their homes on the ledges of Manhattan skyscrapers to their role in protecting California's vineyards from flocks of grape-loving starlings, How Fast Can a Falcon Dive? explores how these avian predators interact with people and with their environment.

About this title

About the Author

Peter Capainolo is senior scientific assistant in the department of ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, an adjunct faculty member at the City University of New York, research associate and board member at the Long Island Natural History Museum, and serves on the New York State Falconry Advisory Board. Carol A. Butler is the coauthor of Salt Marshes: A Natural and Unnatural History, and books within the Rutgers Animal Q&A series including Do Butterflies Bite?, Do Bats Drink Blood?, Do Hummingbirds Hum?, and Why Do Bees Buzz? (all Rutgers University Press).

Review

"I appreciate that you take an interesting and effective approach to the subject...it should be a great reference." --Frank M. Bond, President, International Association for Falconry & Conservation of Birds of Prey.

"Your marvelous book just arrived and I have already learned some stuff--you have succeeded in supplying good answers to interesting questions. It's well worth a purchase." --Clayton M. White, Emeritus Professor of Zoology, BYU

Edition details

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0813547903
• ISBN 13: 9780813547909
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 248