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Description: | This is the skeleton of a male bird, an Iceland Falcon, which is the Iceland varety of the Gyr Falcon. It may have come from one of the mounted specimens of Iceland Falcons that John Hancock displayed at the Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851, which are now part of the Hancock collection. These falcons hunt along rocky open country, coastline and islands. They prey on smaller birds by dropping onto them very fast from a great height. Gyr Falcons from Iceland are slightly darker than the Greenland race. See also NEWHM:S0114 | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East animals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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