| Fidget is a young peregrine falcon eager to try out er newly feathered wings. She and her brother Echo had been hatched in an incubator in a lab and are now living in a 'hack' box nestled on a cliff. This will be their home until they can hunt and fend for themselves. Their caretakers, both falconers and scientists, had become concerned about the plight of the peregrine due to the use of DDT in North America. DDT caused egg shell thinning and without intervention, extinction in some of their native territories was a possibility. When the box is opened to release the birds, Fidget, the bolder of the two, throws caution to the wind - - and soon finds more than she bargained for on her first flight. Fidgets Freedom is published in cooperation with the Raptor Education Foundation, whose mission is to advance environmental literacy through educational programs, books, research services, and their website: www.usaref.org |
