The Peregrine Falcon at the Eyrie/Index
INDEX.
Ages, young peregrines at different— see Peregrine Alarm cry, 7 Aristocracy of the bird world, 2
Cry— Alarm, 7 Feeding yapp, 10, 25, 28 Food cry, 14
Down of young when newly hatched, 7 when eight days old, 34 Structure of, 57
Earl's hiding tent, 3 Egg collectors, 1, 44, 68 Egg collector's camera, 5 Egg of peregrine— Number in clutch, 4, 5 Possible sexual difference, 7, 65 Protected with pencil, 1 When laid, 7 Erecting the shed, 7
Falcon and suffragette, 2 attacked by greater black back, 38 bath, 39 brooding, 8 Comparative size, 2, 64 Conversation with tiercel, 13 Food cry, 26 on guard at night, 50 Quarrel with tiercel, 46 Timidity of, 8, 12 transferring quarry to tiercel, 26, 27 Famine, 42, 46 Flies in the eyrie, 4, 24, 28 Flight of gull, 38 peregrine, 1, 7, 38
Greater black-backed gull— Attack on falcon, 38
Speed of flight, 38 Great grey shrike, 66 Gyr falcon, 68
Hen’s eggs for peregrine’s, 5 Hiding-shed, 5, 7, 8, 23 Hoodie as barrister, 2
Incubation period, 7 Ladies’ veils as blinds, 8 Method of protecting eggs, 1
Peregrine— Adult— Alarm cry, 7 An aristocrat, 2 Castings, 57 Dominance of female, 2, 63 Female—see Falcon Flight, 1, 7 Food cry, 14 General appearance, 1, 20, 64 Head movements, 10 Language, 66 Male—see Tiercel Perverted voles, 2, 23, 63 Size, 1, 2 Special senses, 65, 66 Eggs— Date when laid, 7 Incubation period, 7 Number in clutch, 4, 5, 7 Sexual difference, 7, 65 Young—- At different ages— Two days, 7 Four days, 8, 10 Five days, 20 Seven days, 24 Eight days, 26, 28 Nine days, 34 Peregrine—Young (continued).
Ten days, 34 Eleven days, 40 Twelve days, 42 Fifteen days, 50 Nineteen days, 50, 52 Twenty-one days, 57 Twenty-eight days, 60
Down, 7, 34. 57
Ears, 31
Ejecting casting, 28
Exercising wings, 57
Eyes, 34
Feeding itself, 38, 52
Female checks male whimpering, 58
Hobbling on tarsi, 34
Leaving eyrie, 60
Male seizes tiercel's tongue, 58
Plumage, 52, 57
Preening, 57
Rate of digestion, 12
Robbing one another, 42
Sexual differences, 7, 60, 64
Scowling, 34
Sick after blackbird, 59
Signs of wandering, 58
Sleeping, 24, 31, 57
Snapping at flies, 28 «|
Standing on talons, 44, 50
Prey, condition of, 14, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 33, 40, 62
Sexual differences in peregrine adult, 1, 2, 7, 62 egg, 7, 63 young, 7, 58, 62, 64
Shed, 5, 7, 23, 24 Special senses—
Hearing, 66
Sight, 66
Smell, 65
Taste, 59, 65
Three-ply for shed, 5
! Tiercel—
Bath, 18, 40 bolder than falcon, 3, 23 boldness, 14, 22, 28, 29, 34 brooding at night, rr, 25 carrying prey, 40 cere, 6 Comparative size, 2 Derivation of word, 2 distributing feathers, 34, 44, 50 dozing, 12 ejecting casting, 28 End of day brooding, 31 feeding against. time; 29, 34 feeding young, 10, 26
Period of incubation, 7
- helps young in difficulties, 20
Preening, tiercel, 16, 18
in moonlight, 25
Prey— lower eyelid, 12 Blackbird, 20, 27 on guard at night, 32, 40 Chicken, 46 persuading falcon to return, 18 Corncrake, 7 preening, 16, 18, 20, 27 Curlew, 25 Quarrel with falcon, 25 Hedge sparrow, 50 sheltering young from rain, 50 Lark, 50 Size of image on screen, 16 Nestling shag, 63 sleeping, 27 Pigeon, 34 sneezing, 12, 20 Eee 14, 24, 29, 34, 40 44 Third eyelid, 46, 66 Rat, 63 ing, 10, 24, 2 Razorbill, 55 SBE Rock pipit, 26 Weight—
Thrush, ro, 26, 31, 33, 40 Turtle dove, 7
Effect of Booth’s, on shed, 38 of eggs, 65