Falcon (31 page)

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Authors: Helen Macdonald

Tags: #Nature, #General, #Animals, #Art

Knievel, Evel
33
Knight, C.W.R.
115
Kodak
179

81
Kristina, Queen of Sweden
71
Kushlak the knight
56
Kyrgyzstan
30
,
45

6
,
52

 

lanner falcon
17
,
29 30
,
32
,
51
,
123
,
132
Leopold, Aldo
102
,
157
Lodge, George
33
London
81
,
161

2
,
164
,
185
Louis
xiii,
King of France
69
,
94
lugger falcon
17
,
134
,
166

 

MacClure, Thomas
145

6
,
147
Maechtle, Tom
128
,
157
Mafia
170
Maltese Falcon, The
37

8
Marchetti, Gustave Henri
96
Martini, Simone
39
Mattox, William
154
Maximilian
i
, Holy Roman Emperor
88
Meinertzhagen, Colonel Richard
44
Meredith, Captain Luff
31
,
146

7
,
151

2
migration
17
,
29

32
,
154

6
Mongolia
34
,
132

3
Moon landings
150
mummified falcons
50

51
My Side of the Mountain
64

 

Nâsar al-Din, Shah of Persia
100
New York
30
,
37

8
,
165

7
,
169

70
,

172
,
176

7

New Zealand falcon
19
,
20
,
27
Nietzsche
44
,
163

4
Norse legend
62
,
55
Nye, Alva
79
,
154

 

Oracle Corporation
178

9
orange-breasted falcon
20

 

Pace, Richard
89
Painted Tent, The
65
Pakistan
17
,
30
,
71
,
85
,
134
,
166
peregrine falcon
species description
13

15
near-extinction and recovery
116

32
Peregrine Fund, The
124

32
Peregrine’s Saga, The
111
,
163

4
persecution
109

13
,
134

5
pesticides
109
,
118

22
,
132

3
,
154
,
157
Peterson, Roger Tory
113
,
161
pigeon-keepers
118
,
134

5
Pisanello
86
poetry
54
,
57
,
58

9
,
62
,
78
,
180
Polo, Marco
92
Pope Leo
x 89

90
Practical Taxidermy 111
prairie falcon
18
,
30
,
33
,
112
,
123
,
150

 

Raptor Research Foundation
122
,
184
Ratcliffe, Derek
117

20
reversed size dimorphism (
rsd
)
12
Richard
i,
King of England
91
Richmond, R. Kenneth
8
,
13
.
Rochester,
ny 179

80
Royal Air Force
26
Royal Loo Hawking Club
79
Royal Tenebaums
,
The
65
,
66
rspca 102

3
,
103

 

St John of the Cross
58
saker falcon
13
,
17
,
29

30
,
34
,
77
,

132

4

Saladin
91

2
Salt Lake City
186
Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group
124
,
178
satellite-tracking
154
,
156

9
Saudi Arabia
87

8

 

Scarlett O’Hara
171

2
sexual metaphors
59

61
Shakespeare, William
59
,
80
,
81
shamanism
53

6
,
62
Siberia
34
Silent Spring
119
Sibi-Jâkata
61

2
skyscrapers
166

8
smuggling
13
,
104
Snake River, Idaho
33
Sokar
50
Sokol
46
Somerville, William
78
South America
20
,
73
,
132
,
158
Southern, Harry
116
Springfield,
ma 182

3
Stabler, Robert
146
Stephen, King of England
43
Stevens, Ronald
141

2
sublime
131
,
167
Sufism
57
Sun-Life Falcons
168

9
,
171
Sword in the Stone, The
66

7

 

Tamerlane
46
taxidermy
110

11
telemetry
84

5
territory
29
,
32

4
,
139

40
Three-dollar Bar Billy
56

7
Toulouse-Lautrec
94
totemism
45

7
trade in falcons
94
training falcons
85

8
,
97

8
Treleaven, Dick
117
Tucker, Vance
28
Tunnicliffe, Charles
161
Turberville, George
78
Turul
see
Altai falcon
Tweedsmuir, Lord
85
,
98

 

United Arab Emirates
46
,
72
,
84
Upton, Roger
87
us
Air Force
146

8
,
150
,
154
,
159

60
Usamah Ibn-Muquidh
91

 

Virilio, Paul
153
,
181
vision
21

3

 

Waller, Renz
17
war
91

2
,
136

7
,
139
,
152

3
,
158

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