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Description: | This is the skeleton of a female bird, an Iceland Falcon. John Hancock had several specimens of this subspecies sent to him from Norway and Iceland. He mounted the skins in various displays, and in 1884 presented them to the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne to display in their new museum, now named after him and his brother. Male and female Gyr Falcons are very similar, but the Iceland race is slightly darker than the Greenland one. They breed on rocky cliff faces. | 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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