DAVENPORT -- In a puff of feathers, a 1-month-old male peregrine falcon was tagged for identification and tracking Thursday at the MidAmerican Energy building in Davenport.

Name: Eleonora's falcon (Falco eleonorae) Where it lives: Breeding in the Mediterranean and off the northwest coast of Africa, wintering in Madagascar What it eats: Insects, bats and small birds ...

For researcher Carla Dove the black box of a bird strike investigations comes in dozens of packages received daily at the Smithsonian's feather identification lab. Tiny clues such as feathers ...

Leopold, the falcon that started the program at the Pleasant Prairie Power Plant in 1992 and raised 42 chicks over his life; Atlanta, born at Pulliam Power Plant in Green Bay in 1996 and produced ...

Carla J. Dove, Quantification of Microscopic Feather Characters Used in the Identification of North American Plovers, The Condor, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 47-57 ...

Noel Hyde can call a ''falcon down from the clouds''. It's those skills, developed over a lifetime as a bird of prey conservation advocate, scientific taxidermist and feather identification expert ...