The author and publishers wish to express their thanks to the below sources of illustrative material and/or permission to reproduce it. Some sources uncredited in the captions for reasons of brevity are also given below. We would appreciate hearing from any copyright holder whom we have been unable to trace.
Images © Shujaat Ali/Al Jazeera: pp. 116; from Animal World, vol. XX, no. 237 (June 1889): p. 115; courtesy of the Archives of Falconry (formerly Archives of American Falconry): pp. 57 (top), 71, 80, 92, 113, 125, 129 (photo Charles E. Proctor), 158, 159, 160, 161; courtesy of the author: pp. 24, 147, 200–201; photo © Bettmann/Corbis: p. 179; Biblioteca Civica, Padua: p. 98; The British Council: p. 177; by permission of the British Library, London: pp. 22 (from an album of c. 1802, ‘The Natural Products of Hindostan’, MS NHD 7/1010), 53 (from Peter de Langtoft, Chronicle of England, MS Royal 20 A. ii, f.7); from Montagu Browne, Practical Taxidermy: A Manual of Instruction to the Amateur . . . (London, 1884): p. 122; photo courtesy of the Canadian Peregrine Foundation: p. 190; courtesy of the Center for Conservation Research and Technology, Baltimore: pp. 167, 168, 171; photo by Chas E. Clifton, courtesy The Peregrine Fund: p. 143 (right); photo by Glen Eitemiller, courtesy The Peregrine Fund: p. 138; courtesy of the Environmental Research and Wildife Development Agency (EWRDA): p. 36; after Nick Fox, Understanding the Bird of Prey (Surrey, BC, 1995): p. 37; photo by Nick Fox, courtesy of International Wildlife Consultants, p. 89; photo courtesy of the Freud Museum, London: p. 60; photo by Erin Gott, courtesy of The Peregrine Fund, p. 17; photo by Noel Hyde: p. 29; photo © Norman Kent, courtesy of Norman Kent Productions and Ken Franklin: p. 14; photos courtesy of Eastman Kodak Company: pp. 192, 195; photo courtesy of the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna: p. 99; Gyula László: p. 63; photos courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC (Prints and Photographs Division): pp. 108 (G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, LC-M36-630), 200 [bottom left] (LC-DIG-ppmsc-08571); photo © James Macdonald: p. 198; photo by Tom Maechtle, courtesy The Peregrine Fund: p. 184; Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris: p. 68; Musée du Louvre, Paris: pp. 6 (photo © RMN/Christian Jean), 60 (photo © RMN/Hervé Lewandowski); Museo del Prado, Madrid: p. 82; Nanjing Museum, China: p. 25; image courtesy of NASA: p. 163; photos © Martyn Paterson: pp. 27, 84, 96, 136; courtesy of The Peregrine Fund: pp. 20, 140, 143 (left), 181, 186, 197; photos by Eugene Potapov, courtesy ERWDA: pp. 44, 145; courtesy of Roger-Viollet/Rex Features: pp. 82 (RVB-05062), 103 (R-V 14588-6), 107 (RVB-931482), 112 (R-V 5128-6); private collection: p. 26; Royal Cabinet of Paintings ‘Mauritshuis’, The Hague, p. 87; from H. Schlegel and A. H. Verster van Wulverhorst, Traité de Fauconnerie (Leiden and Düsseldorf, 1845–53): p. 91; photos courtesy of Todd Sharman and the Canadian Peregrine Foundation: pp. 14, 189, 199; © The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg: pp. 45 (Eero Nicolai Jarnefelt, Hawks in the Forest, 1895, water-colour and gouache), 64 (silver dish with falcon or eagle carrying a woman); The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg: p. 74; Topkapı Saray Museum, Istanbul: pp. 13, 105; courtesy of the Tryon Gallery, London: p. 42; courtesy of Roger and Mark Upton: p. 111; US National Park Service: p. 55; courtesy of Roy Wilkinson/British Sea Power: p. 57 (bottom); from Henry Williamson, The Peregrine’s Saga, and Other Tales (London, 1834): p. 175; Yamato Bunkakan Museum, Nara: p. 85; courtesy of the Zoological Society of London: p. 28.