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Author:   Donald Watson
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T & AD Poyser
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9781408137567

ISBN 10:   1408137569
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   30 October 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction 1 Harriers of the world 2 Identifications and Plumages Part 1: The Hen Harrier 3 History of the Hen Harrier in Britain and Ireland 4 What kind of predator? 5 The Breeding Cycle: Courtship to Incubation 6 The Breeding Cycle: Hatchling to Fledging 7 Migration to Winter Distribution 8 The Hen Harrier as an Artist's Bird Part 2: A Study of the Hen Harrier Introduction to Part 2 9 The Beginning: the 1950s 10 Watch in the Heather: The First Nest 11 Moorland Nesting: 1960-68 12 Forest Nesting: 1965-75 13 Watch from a Hide 14 Nest Sites 15 Breeding Data 16 Food and Hunting Grounds in the Breeding Area 17 Food and Hunting Grounds: September - April 18 Communal Roosting in Winter 19 The Hen Harrier: A Controversial Bird Appendix 1: Local names of the Hen Harrier Appendix 2: Avian Species mentioned in the Text Appendix 3: Non-avian species mentioned in the text Appendix 4: Protection Under the Acts of 1954 and 1967 Bibliography Tables Acknowledgements Plates Index

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Donald Watson was renowned as both a pre-eminent artist of wild south-west Scotland and as a talented field ornithologist. Following service in the Burma campaign from 1944 to the war’s end, Donald put his talent as a bird artist to good use, illustrating many books, and producing a number of superb paintings of wild places – moors, estuaries and heaths. Meanwhile, he continued his scientific studies, becoming president of the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club, with this culminating in his great masterpiece, 1977’s The Hen Harrier. Later in life he continued to paint and publish, with his last book, In Search of Harriers, published shortly after his death in 2005.

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