How Fast Can a Falcon Dive?: Fascinating Answers to Questions About Birds of Prey

"Want to know everything about birds of preyuour amazing raptors? Then Capainolo and Butler's compact book, How Fast Can a Falcon Dive?, is the place to start!"-Joel Cracraft, Lamont Curator of Birds, American Museum of Natural History

"Birds of prey are endlessly fascinating. They fill us with wonderuand questions. Fortunately, this book has the answers, presented in an engaging style. A 'must-read' for anyone. Who admires raptors."uTim Gallagher, Author Of Falcon Fever

How Fast Can a Falcon Dive? explores the world of raptors in a way that will appeal to bird lovers and biology enthusiasts alike. In a reader-friendly question and answer format, and complete with more than fifty-five color and black-and white images, ornithologist Peter Capainolo and science writer Carol A. Butler define and classify raptors, explore the physical attributes of birds of prey, view how their bodies work, and explain the social and physical behaviors of these species-how they communicate, hunt, reproduce, and, more.

Peter Capainolo is Senior scientific assistant in the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, an adjunct faculty member at the city University of New York, research associate and board member at the Long Island Natural History Museum, and serves on the New York State Falconry Advisory Board.