num_pages: 224
description: Dan O'Brien spent the summer of 1986 in the Rocky Mountains releasing young peregrine falcons on the mountain cliffs. When one of his release sites was raided by a golden eagle, he managed to save a peregrine chick, and decided to make an improbable two-thousand-mile trip with the surviving young falcon, Dolly. From the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, following the autumnal migration of waterfowl, O'Brien taught her to hunt as a wild falcon would, in the hopes of releasing her into the natural world. The Rites of Autumn is the riveting account of their incredible journey.
language: German
title: Herbstriten: Reise Eines Falkners Durch Den Amerikanischen Westen
titlecomplete: Herbstriten: Reise Eines Falkners Durch Den Amerikanischen Westen
genres: Nature, Birds, Animals, Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 117
publisher: Klett-Cotta