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Product Description: High in the sky, a peregrine falcon joins her mate for some swooping and diving before returning to her nest to guard her eggs. The couple doesn't know it yet, but they will lose most of these eggs - the first clutch to a volunteer scaling the cliff, and the next to the harmful effects of DDT...read more

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9781927485613 | Ingram Pub Services, August 1, 2014, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: High in the sky, a peregrine falcon joins her mate for some swooping and diving before returning to her nest to guard her eggs.

Paperback:

9781927485897 | Pajama Pr, October 15, 2015, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: High in the sky, a peregrine falcon joins her mate for some swooping and diving before returning to her nest to guard her eggs.

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9781491423103 | Pebble Plus, January 1, 2015, cover price $6.95

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9781491420928 | Pebble Plus, January 1, 2015, cover price $25.99

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9781554079278 | Firefly Books Ltd, May 10, 2012, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal in the world. It can fly at a speed of 68 miles per hour, and it can dive through the air at an even more amazing speed: 200 miles per hour! The falcons make these high-speed dives in order to catch other birds for food...read more

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9781936087938 | 1 edition (Bearport Pub Co Inc, August 1, 2010), cover price $22.61 | About this edition: The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal in the world.

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Discusses the plight of peregrine falcons and why they are near extinction, as well as some of the ways humans can help.

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9781403454362 | Not Applicable, January 1, 2004, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Discusses the plight of peregrine falcons and why they are near extinction, as well as some of the ways humans can help.

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9781439538975 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, August 11, 2008), cover price $17.99

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Fidget is a young peregrine falcon that has been hatched from an incubator and is living in a 'hack' box on the side of a cliff, where she is to be gradually introduced to the wild, but her first flight proves to be more harrowing than expected.
By Vadim Gorbatov (photographer) and Stacy Patterson

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9780972342261 | Mountain Pr, July 31, 2006, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Fidget is a young peregrine falcon that has been hatched from an incubator and is living in a 'hack' box on the side of a cliff, where she is to be gradually introduced to the wild, but her first flight proves to be more harrowing than expected.

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9781888357097 | 1 edition (Western Sporting Pubns, July 30, 2006), cover price $32.95

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Product Description: A superb success as a bird, combining great speed, aeronautical grace, and fearlessness...inhabitant of wild places, inaccessible cliffs, and skyscrapers...worldwide dweller, trans-equatorial migrant, and docile captive—the peregrine falcon stands alone among all others of its kind...read more
By James Enderson and Robert Katona (illustrator)

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9780292705906 | Univ of Texas Pr, February 3, 2005, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A superb success as a bird, combining great speed, aeronautical grace, and fearlessness.

Paperback:

9780292706248 | Univ of Texas Pr, February 3, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A superb success as a bird, combining great speed, aeronautical grace, and fearlessness.

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Discusses the plight of peregrine falcons and why they are near extinction, as well as some of the ways humans can help. (view table of contents)

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9781403448620 | Heinemann/Raintree, March 1, 2004, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Discusses the plight of peregrine falcons and why they are near extinction, as well as some of the ways humans can help.

Describes the efforts of scientists who are trying to save the peregrine falcon from extinction by taking the fragile eggs that would not survive in the wild, hatching them, raising the chicks, and then releasing the birds back into the wild.

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9780876145234 | Lerner Pub Group, December 1, 1985, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Descibes the efforts of scientists who are trying to save the peregrine falcon from extinction by raising the chicks in captivity and then releasing the birds back into the wild

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9780876142257 | Carolrhoda Books, March 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Describes the efforts of scientists who are trying to save the peregrine falcon from extinction by taking the fragile eggs that would not survive in the wild, hatching them, raising the chicks, and then releasing the birds back into the wild.

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9780606227698 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $16.16 | About this edition: Descibes the efforts of scientists who are trying to save the peregrine falcon from extinction by raising the chicks in captivity and then releasing the birds back into the wild

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9780613280532 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 1985, cover price $18.45 | About this edition: Descibes the efforts of scientists who are trying to save the peregrine falcon from extinction by raising the chicks in captivity and then releasing the birds back into the wild

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Describes the physical traits and behavioral habits of this bird of prey. (view table of contents)

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9780823955985 | Powerkids Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $23.60 | About this edition: Describes the physical traits and behavioral habits of this bird of prey.

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Describes peregrine falcons and the efforts to increase their numbers, and shares the story of a female who made her home on the ledge of a Baltimore office building

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9780785792802 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $13.25 | About this edition: Describes peregrine falcons and the efforts to increase their numbers, and shares the story of a female who made her home on the ledge of a Baltimore office building

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In an engaging look at both the beauty and fragility of falcons and their habitat, young readers learn about Scarlett, a falcon who lived on a Baltimore skyscraper, and her fight for life. Simultaneous.
By Priscilla Belz Jenkins and Megan Lloyd (illustrator)

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9780060211042 | Trophy Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes peregrine falcons and the efforts to increase their numbers, and shares the story of a female who made her home on the ledge of a Baltimore office building

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9780064451499 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, May 1, 1996, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Describes peregrine falcons and the efforts to increase their numbers, and shares the story of a female who made her home on the ledge of a Baltimore office building

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9780060211059, titled "Falcon's Nest on Skyscrapers" | Harpercollins, March 1, 1996, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: Describes peregrine falcons and the efforts to increase their numbers, and shares the story of a female who made her home on the ledge of a Baltimore office building

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9780606092579 | Demco Media, May 1, 1996, cover price $11.59 | About this edition: Describes peregrine falcons and the efforts to increase their numbers, and shares the story of a female who made her home on the ledge of a Baltimore office building

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9781857021059 | Fourth Estate Classic House, August 1, 1994, cover price $90.00

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Color photographs depict the peregrine falcon in all its grace and beauty, and text describes how the bird has fared against man and pesticides, its biggest enemies

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9780871565044 | Sierra Club Books, September 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Color photographs depict the peregrine falcon in all its grace and beauty, and text describes how the bird has fared against man and pesticides, its biggest enemies

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9780871564610 | Reprint edition (Sierra Club Books, October 1, 1993), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Color photographs depict the peregrine falcon in all its grace and beauty, and text describes how the bird has fared against man and pesticides, its biggest enemies

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Describes the peregrine falcon and its behavior, explains its status as an endangered species, and suggests what can be done to help save it

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9780894904226 | Enslow Pub Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Describes the peregrine falcon and its behavior, explains its status as an endangered species, and suggests what can be done to help save it

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Provides information about the Peregrine falcon, and discusses the latest efforts made to protect this bird from extinction
By Sylvia Funston and Olena Kassian (illustrator)

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9780920775998 | Maple Tree Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Provides information about the Peregrine falcon, and discusses the latest efforts made to protect this bird from extinction

A compelling real-life account of the smuggling and subsequent sale by con men of near-extinct falcons out of Yukon wildlife sanctuaries and the joint U.S./Canadian sting operation that culminated in an embarassing law-enforcement diaster

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9780070453173 | McGraw-Hill, October 1, 1989, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A compelling real-life account of the smuggling and subsequent sale by con men of near-extinct falcons out of Yukon wildlife sanctuaries and the joint U.

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Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and life cycle of this small bird of prey and briefly examines the sport of falconry.

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9780896862715 | Crestwood House, February 1, 1986, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Describes the habitat, behavior, and life cycle of this small bird of prey

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Discusses the mating and nesting habits of the peregrine falcon and the attempts to save these birds from extinction by breeding them in captivity.

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9780803749726 | Dutton Childrens Books, July 1, 1975, cover price $5.47 | About this edition: A narrative account of the near extinction of the peregrine falcon in the eastern United States and of the efforts being made to ensure the survival of the near legendary species

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