Gyrfalcon

The Gyrfalcon is two feet long; the Peregrine Falcon of this country twenty inches, which is rather larger than that of Europe.

Rural Hours

I was able to establish that he had gone aboard the 'Gyrfalcon' when she was about to lift for Luna City and had not left her-so I told the girls that Noisy had had a sudden opportunity to go home again but had left a message with the port captain for each of them-then added more lies to personalize the goodbye he hadn't made.

Time Enough For Love

Hunting with a Gyrfalcon might be legal in this state, but would be illegal in that state, etc.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Unusual State-Level Hunting and Animal Killing Rules:

The Gyrfalcon funds had about $1.1 billion in combined assets as of late March.

Two Money Managers Will Close Large Funds

For non- birders, the cover of The Peregrine does not show a Peregrine or even a falcon; the cover of The Goshawk shows a Gyrfalcon.

Egregious-- and Hilarious-- Error

Second, the cover uses a detail from Holbein's portrait of Cheseman, of a Gyrfalcon.

Egregious-- and Hilarious-- Error

Probably they diverged from the Peregrine during the Pleistocene glaciations, just as the Gyrfalcon did from the Saker.

Archive 2006-06-01

I am reading the wonderful new monograph The Gyrfalcon .

"Genetic Pollution"?

I quote, but without all the references italics mine: There was panic in Sweden in 1999 when an escaped male Gyrfalcon x Peregrine falcon hybrid from Denmark paired with a native Peregrine female in Bohuslan, the male identified by its leg ring.

"Genetic Pollution"?

**Author of the splendid new monograph The Gyrfalcon.

Of "Save" the Falcons: Big Lies