How to Win a Long Distance Pigeon Race

  From Patrick Porter, the best  writer you haven’t  read: How To Win a Long Distance Pigeon Race   It helps if your Dad kept pigeons in his youth because his father dabbled with them along the Saugus River in Lynn, Massachusetts.  They also kept ducks and a few chickens but Dad spent most of his …

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“World Class Bird”

In Kazakhstan, when nature photographer  Oleg Belyalov finally decided that we were serious naturalists, he wanted  to make sure we saw the best birds. We had been out for a long day, so he took us to one of the clear little trout streams that flow through Almaty, where, in a bush on the bank, …

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New Bird

We are getting a young Gyr/Anatum/Barbary from Bill Meeker this week. He is about the size of a pigeon, and just fledged….

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Am I Crazy? Desert Peregrines in Asia and the US

Since the eighties, the “peregrinoformes” known as Barbary falcons and their . close eastern relatives, the Red-Naped Shahins , have been separated from the typical Peregrines and collected into one biological species known as Barbary Falcons, Falco pelegrinoides. View the autos This seems a sensible start, at least. Unlike the “Classical” Peregrine, these are true …

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Eagle Women

–Two of the better known eagle falconers are coming to visit Casa Q next month. Lauren McGough, newly minted PHD anthropologist, is a long time protegee who first came here and on to Mongolia when she was sixteen. Novelist Rebecca O’Connor, who hails from California is also a longtime honorary Magdalenean. I’m trying to get …

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