The book is free of charge
To get a copy we ask You to donate to Polish Peregrine Project and cover the p&p costs This publication is based on the materials from an international scientific conference titled: “Falconry – its influence on biodiversity and cultural heritage in Poland and across Europe / Sokolnictwo – wpływ na bioróżnorodność i dziedzictwo kulturowe w Polsce i w Europie” Supraśl, 16–17 October 2015.
Action implemented within the “Ecological Education Centre of the Podlaskie Museum – Falconry Centre”, co-financed by the Operational Programme: The protection of the biological diversity and ecosystems within the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area for 2009–2014.
EEA Funds
20 articles and 3 reports, 345 pages, hardcover
Published by:
Muzeum Podlaskie w Białymstoku
Instytucja Kultury Województwa Podlaskiego
ISBN 978–83–87026–59–2
Content
BIODIVERSITY AND FALCONRY
- Janusz Sielicki Falconry as a biodiversity conservation tool
- Vladimir M. Galushin, Alexander G. Sorokin Large Falcons in Northern Eurasia: recent population trends and conservation status
- Sławomir Sielicki, Janusz Sielicki The restoration of the Peregrine Falcon in Poland in 1990–2015 and the falconry
- Alena Lustina Hunting limitations aimed at preserving biodiversity in Belarus from the earliest times until the 19th century
CULTURAL HERITAGE AND FALCONRY
- Andrei V. Zinoviev Early Falconry In Russia: Recent Finds In Novgorod the Great And Tver
- Agnieszka Samsonowicz Falconry in Medieval Poland
- Cezary Tryk Falkenfang – Falcon Trapping in 15–16th century Prussia
- Toma Zarankaitė Falconry in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 15th–16th centuries
- Sviatlana Kul-Sialverstava Hunting and natural resources described in estate and crown lands (starostw) inventories in Belarus and Lithuania in the 16–18th century
- Natalino Fenech Raptors and falconry in Malta: culture, history and conservation
- Leor Jacobi The Rabbis on the hunt: from Palestine to Poland
- Atef Jenhani The Cultural heritage of falconry on Cap Bon (Tunisia). Brief history
- Bogdan Burliga Subici potestati hominum: Falconry as an Exercise in Spiritual (and Social) Snobbery in the “De arte venandi cum avibus” by the Emperor Frederick II
- Marlena Wilczak The Position of Mateusz Cygańskis “Myślistwo ptasze” [„Bird hunting”] in Old Polish Literature and its influence on the development of ornithology
- Piotr Gołdyn The theme and symbolism of the falcon in heraldry. An outline
- Aliaksei Biletski Veterinarian training and developments in the study of biodiversity at the turn of the 18–19th century in the area of Grodno
- Daria Misiak Representation of owls in Polish folklore
ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION AND FALCONRY
- Ewa Łukaszyk A falconry lesson. The experience of introducing falconry into a transdisciplinary curriculum of studies
- Artur Gaweł Ecological Education Centre of the Podlaskie Museum – Falconry Centre as the Museums novel practice in environmental education
- Iwona Lewkowicz Nature in preschool education
NEWS REPORTS
- Elisabeth Leix A view on falconry and education in Europe
- Nicola Dixon School Links Programme: using falconry & falcon conservation to instigate international links between schools
- Jevgeni Shergalin Interviewing Old Falconers – one of the projects of Falconry Heritage Trust