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How Fast Can A Falcon Dive?: Fascinating Answers to Questions about Birds of Prey
Peter Capainolo
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Description for How Fast Can A Falcon Dive?: Fascinating Answers to Questions about Birds of Prey
Paperback. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Animals Q & A
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813547909
SKU
V9780813547909
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Peter Capainolo
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: ... Read more
Reviews for How Fast Can A Falcon Dive?: Fascinating Answers to Questions about Birds of Prey
"Want to know everything about birds of prey—our amazing raptors? Then Capainolo and Butler's compact book, How Fast Can a Falcoln Dive?, is the place to start!"
Joel Cracraft
Lamont Curator of Birds, American Museum of Natural History
"Birds of prey are endlessly fascinating. They fill us with wonder—and questions. Fortunately, this book has the answers, presented ... Read more
Joel Cracraft
Lamont Curator of Birds, American Museum of Natural History
"Birds of prey are endlessly fascinating. They fill us with wonder—and questions. Fortunately, this book has the answers, presented ... Read more