MAGICAL MERLINS. By Bruce A. Haak.

2021 1st edition. 4to (204 x 261mm). Ppx,182,ill. Colour photographs and paintings, graphs and charts, bibliography. Brown cloth, spine titled in black.

"Bruce Haak has spent nearly five decades studying wild raptors. ...he conducted one of the early radio telemetry studies of the prairie falcon. As a wildlife biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, he did peregrine monitoring. For 25 years, he studied raptor migration using both VHF and satellite telemetry, throughout the western Great Basin." Chapters include: Embracing the species; Trapping and radio-tagging; Habitat preferences and selection; Winter range, roosting behaviour, winter site fidelity; Subspecies composition in Idaho; Wintering, migration, breeding; Populations of North American Merlins; Plumages of North American Merlins; Hunting behvaiour; Seatle's urban merlins; Final thoughts; Gallery; Appendices; Suggested reading.