Be more bird : life lessons from a Harris Hawk
Meyrick, Candida2026
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2020: while the world is grounded, Bird arrives in the life of writer, Candida Meyrick, living with her young family on Anglesey. The twelve-week-old Harris Hawk, Sophia Houdini Whitewing - aka Bird - is trained over the following months by the author and her children to be most herself: a skilled hunter and dazzling aerial gymnast, whose flights enrapture the family and set the author on a deepening love affair with life on the wing. Working with her Harris Hawk over the following years reveals a new world: confronting mortality daily, moving through a liminal landscape, part sky-, part earth-bound. And every day's hunting brings a new life-lesson. Bird opens up a way of being that is everything the author most longs to be: courageous, compassionate, independent, full of joy - free as a bird.
Main title:
Be more bird : life lessons from a Harris Hawk / Candida Meyrick.
Author:
Meyrick, Candida, author
Imprint:
London : William Collins, 2026.
Collation:
208 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780008761523 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
Meyrick, CandidaMeyrick, Candida -- Homes and haunts -- Wales -- AngleseyHuman-animal relationshipsHarris's hawkLiteratureLiterature: history & criticismBiography & non-fiction proseAutobiography: generalTrue stories: discovery / historical / scientificAnimals & societyZoology: birds (ornithology)Wildlife: birds & birdwatching: general interestUnited Kingdom, Great Britain
BRN:
4208594