But they are also loyal and intensely aware of their surroundings. They are deeply emotional animals, quick to show anger and frustration, and can hold a grudge for years. Over the next few years, Sy spent more time with these magnificent creatures, getting to know their extraordinary abilities and instincts. From the first moment Jazz swept down from a tree and landed on Sy's leather gloved fist, Sy fell under the hawk's magnetic spell. Not a pet, Jazz was a fierce predator with talons that could pierce skin and bone and yet, she was willing to work with a human to hunt. Nancy allowed her to work with Jazz, a feisty, four-year-old, female Harris's hawk with a wingspan of more than four feet. When Sy Montgomery went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan's farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey, it was the start of a deep love affair. A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature's most perfect and mysterious creatures – the hawk – from the New York Times bestselling author of the "astoundingly beautiful" (NPR) The Soul of an Octopus.
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