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by Helen Macdonald


  Berry, Robert 137

  Bilibin, Ivan 74

  Birdcam see webcams

  bird-strikes 150–53

  black falcon 30

  Blaine, Gilbert 85–6

  Bodio, Stephen 16, 112–14

  Bogart, Humphrey 47–8, 48

  Boke of St Albans, The 52

  Bourdon, Sébastian 82

  breeding falcons 42–6, 134–6

  British Falconers Club 111, 129

  British Sea Power rock group 57, 58

  Buchan, John 111

  Island of Sheep 109

  Burton, Sir Richard 104

  Burton, Robert 100

  C4ISR 165, 170

  Cade, Tom 113–14, 136, 139–44

  Canada 40, 135, 180–82, 135, 185–6, 192

  Canadian Peregrine Foundation 189–91, 190

  Canning, Richard, The Painted Tent 77

  Canterbury Tale, A 155, 156

  Carnie, Kent 8

  Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring 131

  celebrity 40, 118, 183, 184

  Center for Conservation Research and Technology (CCRT) 168–9, 168

  Central Asia 55, 62, 67–8, 81, 84, 104, 145–6

  Chardin, Sir John 104–5

  Cheseman, Robert 87

  Chrysler Building, New York 178, 179

  Chumash people 53, 65

  climate change 12

  Codex Capodilista 98

  conservation philosophy 118–21, 141–4, 147

  Craighead, Frank and John 127, 165–7, 169

  Crusades 102

  D’Arcussia, Charles 62, 67, 69, 101, 140

  Day, J. Wentworth 111

  DDT see pesticides

  Edge, Rosalie 47, 124

  Egyptian mythology 59–62, 60, 61, 67, 120

  Emeshe 63–4, 63

  espionage 92, 163–4

  evolution 20

  F-16 ‘Fighting Falcon’ 151

  fables 51, 74

  Falcon, The (superhero) 73

  Falcon and the Snowman, The 164

  falconry equipment 6, 71–2, 80, 91–2, 93–6, 95, 96

  Falcons, The, American football team 57

  fascism 50, 176–7

  Fathiab, Mohamed 68

  feathers 24, 37, 38, 45, 54–5, 72, 147, 162, 163

  Finist the Falcon 72

  flight 20, 33–8, 45, 89

  Ford Falcon car 58, 59

  Fox, Nick 115

  Frederick II of Hohenstaufen 102, 103

  French, Thomas 194

  Fyfe, Richard 135, 137, 139

  gamekeepers 122, 146–7

  Genghis Khan 63, 148

  George, Jean Craighead, My Side of the Mountain 77

  Glasier, Philip 97

  Goering, Hermann 8, 26, 27, 163–4

  Goodwin, George 158

  goshawks 9–11

  Gott, Erin 17

  Greenland 17, 25, 40, 43, 163–4, 166

  grey falcon 30

  gyrfalcon 13, 17, 21, 24–8, 25, 26, 33, 37, 40, 43, 44, 52, 53, 56, 97, 103–4, 105, 124

  H is for Hawk 7, 9, 11

  habitat 12, 42–4, 145–6, 186

  hacking 140–41

  Hafez 68–9

  Hagar, Joseph 124–6, 128–9

  Hall, George Harper 180–81

  Harting, J. E., Ornithology of Shakespeare 93, 122

  Haut Vol 89–91, 91

  Havilland, Olivia de 82

  Hawk Mountain 124

  Hickey, Joseph 131–2, 178

  Hierakonpolis 59

  Hines, Barry, Kes 77

  Holbein, Hans 87

  hoods 6, 71, 80, 88, 93–4, 95, 99, 102

  Horus 59–62, 66

  hunting strategies 27, 35–7, 88–93, 186

  Illingworth, Frank 97, 154–5

  imperialism 106–9

  India 22, 29, 72–3, 105–6, 107, 178

  Iran 23, 24, 62, 65, 68–9

  Japan 84, 85

  Jarnefelt, Eero Nicolai 45

  Jones, David, The Lord of Venedotia 177

  Karok people 43

  Kazakhstan 55–6, 63

  Kes 77

  Khan, Great 104

  Knight, C.W.R. 126–7

  Kodak 191–3

  Kristina, queen of Sweden 82

  Kushlak the knight 67

  Kyrgyzstan 39, 51, 55, 63

  lanner falcon 28, 29–30, 33, 38, 40, 41, 108, 135, 144, 151

  Le Guin, Ursula K., A Wizard of Earthsea 75, 75

  Leo X, Pope 101

  Leopold, Aldo 169

  Lodge, George 42

  London 174–6, 175, 198

  Louis XIII, king of France 81, 106

  lugger falcon 146, 178

  Mabel (hawk) 11

  MacClure, Thomas 157–9

  Maechtle, Tom 141, 169

  Mafia, the 182

  Maltese Falcon, The 47–8, 48

  Marchetti, Gustave Henri 107

  Martini, Simone 49

  Mattox, William 166

  Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 99

  Meinertzhagen, Colonel Richard 54

  Meredith, Captain Luff 40, 159–60, 163

  migration 28, 39–41, 166–8

  Mongolia 29, 43, 44, 144–5

  moon landings 162, 163

  mummified falcons 61, 120

  My Side of the Mountain 77

  Nâsar al-Din, Shah of Persia 112

  New York City 76–7, 178–82, 186, 188–9

  New Zealand falcon 29, 30, 36

  Nietzsche, Friedrich 174, 176

  Norse legend 65, 73

  Nye, Alva 166

  Oracle Corporation 191

  orange-breasted falcon 30

  Pace, Richard 101

  Painted Tent, The 77

  Pakistan 29, 36, 40, 82, 146, 178

  peregrine falcon

  near-extinction and recovery 128–47

  species description 16–19

  Peregrine Fund, The 136–8, 138, 141, 143, 143, 166, 185

  Peregrine’s Saga, The 123, 176

  persecution 121–4, 146–7

  pesticides 12, 116, 120–21, 128–34, 144, 149, 169, 183

  Peterson, Roger Tory 125

  pigeon-keepers 40, 130, 147, 153–4, 157–8, 182

  Pisanello, Young Falcon 6

  poetry 65, 67–70, 72, 89–90, 193

  Polo, Marco 104

  Practical Taxidermy 122

  prairie falcon 30, 39, 42, 43, 66, 124, 135, 162, 163

  Raptor Research Foundation 134, 196

  Ratcliffe, Derek 129–32

  reversed size dimorphism (RSD) 20

  Richard I, king of England 103

  Richmond, W. Kenneth 16, 23

  Rochester, New York 178, 191–2, 192

  Royal Air Force 35

  Royal Loo Hawking Club 91

  Royal Tenebaums, The 76, 77

  RSPCA 114

  St John of the Cross 69

  saker falcon 23, 27, 28–30, 33, 36, 36, 39, 43, 44, 88, 89, 107, 116, 119, 144–7, 145

  Saladin 103

  Salt Lake City 198

  Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group 135, 191

  satellite-tracking 165–71, 167, 171

  Saudi Arabia 100, 146

  Scarlett (falcon, Baltimore) 183–5, 184

  sexual metaphors 70–71

  Shakespeare, William 70, 91–3, 93

  shamanism 64–7, 73

  Siberia 44, 65

  Sibi-Jâkata 72–3

  Silent Spring 131

  skyscrapers 178–83, 179

  smuggling 23, 106, 116, 121, 146

  Snake River, Idaho 43

  Sokar 59, 61

  Sokol (organization) 56

  Somerville, William, ‘Field Sports’ 89–90

  South America 30, 40, 84–5, 144, 170

  Southern, Harry 128

  Springfield, Massachusetts 194–5

  Stabler, Robert 158–60

  Stephen, king of England 53

  Stevens, Ronald 153–4


  sublime 143, 179

  Sufism 68–9

  Sun Life Falcons 180–81

  Sword in the Stone, The 77–8

  Tamerlane 56

  taxidermy 122–3, 122

  telemetry 96

  territory 24, 42–3, 46, 151–2

  Three-dollar Bar Billy 68

  Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, Sr 106

  totemism 54–8

  trade in falcons 61–2, 105–6, 119, 120

  training falcons 97–100, 109–10

  Treleaven, Dick 129

  Tucker, Vance 38

  Tunnicliffe, Charles 173–5, 174

  Turberville, George 89

  Turul see Altai falcon

  Tweedsmuir, Lord 97

  United Arab Emirates 56, 83, 96

  Upton, Roger 100

  US Air Force 149, 159–62, 168, 171

  Usamah Ibn-Muquidh 102

  Virilio, Paul 165, 194

  vision 30–32

  Waller, Renz 26, 27

  war

  First World War 35, 123, Second World War 35, 141, 159

  wartime falcon squadrons 153–61, 158, 159, 160, 161

  Ward, F. Prescott 166

  webcams 190–96

  Webster, Harold 86–7, 109, 161

  White, T. H. 71, 110–11

  The Sword in the Stone 77–8, 79

  White House 166–7

  William of Wykeham, bishop of Winchester 101

  Williamson, Henry, The Peregrine’s Saga 123, 176

  Wilson, Harold 134

  Wizard of Earthsea, A 75, 75

  world tree 65–6

 

 

 


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