Flashing wings

John K. Terres is a former editor of Audubon Magazine. This book, based on observations of a field naturalist and the research of an ornithologist, is a detailed account of birds in flight, pointing out their beauty and natural grace as well as the technical and engineering aspects of flight. --Amazon.com.

First sentence: ONE SUNNY AFTERNOON IN MAY, I took my peregrine falcon, The Princess, from her perch in my backyard and carried her on my fist to the edge of the village for her daily flight.

Year

1968

Publisher

Perennial (HarperCollins)

Editions

2

ISBN

9780060970994

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