Falconer Les Boyd passed away in 2019, but his conservation legacy lives on in this rubber hat. Boyd designed the copulation hat (a.k.a. insemination hat or sex hat) in the early 1970s and as a result, saved a species. (Boyd appears a photo from the Peregrine Fund wearing an early version of his hat.) In …
Month: March 2026
Incredible Scroll
Made for Charles Gordon the eccentric Victorian collector – as with most of his incredible collection, he never fired them. 16-bore; 30 3/4″ barrel (original length) completed February 1st 1890 (long after percussion became obsolete) If you want to know what original colour case hardening, and blacking looked like from the greatest era these …
Death Gulch
“Wahb Springs” “Death Gulch” Evocative names. But where do they come from? Today’s Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles has the origin story. https://www.usgs.gov/…/yellowstones-wahb-springs-and… The 1900 book The Biography of a Grizzly, by Ernest Thompson Seton (one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America), is a fictional story about the life of a grizzly bear named …
No More Accipiters?
This was a shocker. I have to say I am bummed out. I thought accipiter was a cool name for a goshawk.
Southwest Critter Comebacks?
On February 24, 2026, the long-standing mystery of the jaguarundi’s existence in the United States took a tantalizing turn as conservationists released new data from high-definition trail cameras along the Texas-Mexico border, documenting several sets of “uniquely slender” feline prints and blurry, low-light footage that could finally provide the “Class 1” evidence needed to prove …