Birds

From 50 to 100 Gyrfalcons were delivered to Moscow annually, the highest numbers delivered during the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov (1645–1676).  Gyrfalcon trappers in the Russian Arctic in the 13th -18th Centuries, Jevgeni Shergalin. This is a bird of the northern tundra and the world’s largest falcon, weighing up to 4.5 lbs. and 22 inches […]

See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.  Alexander Pope, Windsor Forest. This is a bird native to Asia that has been widely introduced throughout the word for hunting.  It is a

His clothes had been made of some stuff that was brown holland probably, but it was covered with patches all over, with bright patches, blue, red, and yellow—patches on the back, patches on the front, patches on elbows, on knees; coloured binding around his jacket, scarlet edging at the bottom of his trousers; and the

This is a large, brown and white seabird that exhibits the gliding flight close to the ocean waves common to shearwaters, albatross, and other pelagic seabirds.  The upperparts are a gray-brown with pale feather edges on the back and upper tail.  The underparts are a contrasting white.  This is a general common color scheme for

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploringwill be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. –T.S. Eliot. This is a medium-sized tern that is circumpolar – breeding in the Arctic and sub-Arctic northern areas and then getting a second summer by migrating to the