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Did you know that Falcon's eyeballs are so huge they take up most of its head and

that those eyes are separated by only a thin membrane? Well that's just one of the fun facts I learned this week from a new book called

Falconer on the Edge, A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West.

The author Rachel Dickinson is married to a falconer and her book is a glimpse into the world of this centuries-old blood sport.

Now, I'll admit it, the blood part makes me queasy, but I have to say that the book gave me a whole

new appreciation for the vocabulary of falconry like take the word haggard it

describes a worn tired tired, gaunt appearance. But did you know that originally

Hagard applied to birds? Specifically, it described an adult female hawk that was caught in the

wild and not raised in captivity.

By the 16th century, Haggard had come to denote anybody who was similarly wild or intractable,

and later it applied more generally the way we use it today.

And you know in Shakespeare's day Falconry was an aristocratic sport and he's very familiar

with this you see it in his plays like for example the jealous

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