THE PEREGRINES OF THE LAKE DISTRICT

(CALIOLOGISTS' SERIES No: 4)

By M.J. Dawson

A very good clean first edition hardback. Dust-wrapper just a little worn along edges and with small hole and two sticker abrasions to rear panel. A good-plus example of a scarce and sought-after book. 

1985 1st edition. 8vo (155 x 216mm). Ppi,61. Colour frontispiece illustration by Bryan Hanlon, b/w photographs. Green boards, spine titled in gilt.

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One of the scarcer volumes in the well-thought-of Caliologists' Series.

"Nesting Sites, Old and New, in Cumbria and in the nearby Pennines."

"This is the fourth book in the Caliologists' Series and lists most of the eyries of the Peregrine Falcon in the Lake District and the adjoining Pennines. A vast amount of research into all available books, magazines, periodicals, private diaries, Bulletins of bird societies; from museum records and from files and data cards of past and present egg and skin collections has enabled most of the eyries to be collated. This book is for the dedicated field ornithologist who wishes to see and study this raptor in one of the wilder parts of Great Britain." (Publisher's blurb).

Contents include:- Distribution of the Peregrine Falcon; Identification; Nest or eyrie; Eggs; Breeding age; Incubation; Desertion; Food; Longevity; Falconry; Captive breeding; Protection; Finding Peregrines' nests; Ordnance Survey Maps of the Lake District; List of Peregrine eyries; Bibliography; Falconry establishments; Wildlife & Countryside Act important points for bird-watchers and ornithologists.