Alan Max Alpert
Buenos Aires, Argentina- for the spanish name of the bald eagle. Web-site about eagles.
Flemming Andersen, M.D.
Odense, Denmark- for letting me use some of his excellent photographs of me and Leika, for bringing several errors in my HTML-code to my attention, and for telling me of a couple of falconry- and raptor-related web-sites.
Morten Clausen, Former secretary of The Danish Hawking Club
Sønder Omme, Denmark- for addresses, articles and information about falconry in Sweden and Norway.
Christian de Coune, President of the IAF
Belgium- for the 'Bird-directive', the draft of 'Euro-CITES', and the IAF history, the IAF's Code of Conduct, and A falconry pass.
Jakob Damgaard, cand. scient. (biologist)
Zoological Museum, Copenhagen
DenmarkMy longtime friend - for constructive criticism and fruitfull discussions
Niels Hesselbjerg Christensen, chemical engineer
Aalborg
Denmark- for a vast amount of informations and source material on the history of falconry in Denmark, now implemented in The History of Falconry in Denmark, Norway and Iceland. For fruitfull discussions, and for a copy of his book "De store falke fra de danske konger" ("The large falcons from the danish kings").
Pernille Hansen
Denmark- for permission to use her excellent pendrawings of hawks.
Eva Holm, M.V.Sc.
Danish Veterinary- and Food Administration, 1. Office
Denmark- for helping out on the "Necessary applications and permits to be applied for prior to hawking in the UK".
Tage Jessen
President of The Danish Hawking Club
Denmark- for documents on danish legislation, and a lot of useful informations.
Bill Johnson
Member of Mississippi Falconer's Association
U.S.A.- for his willingness to help and for bringing some linguistic errors to my attention.
Giovanni Leonardi, Dr.
Masters degree from the University of Catania. Studies at the McGill University (Montreal, Canada) on American Kestrels' behavioural patterns. In Sicily he studied Lanners for ten years and has published three papers and a book. 2 papers on Peregrines, 2 on Lanners, 2 on American kestrels, a second edition of his book "Ecology and Behaviour of the Lanner falcon", and a CD Rom called "Key bibliography of the genus Falco" is under preparation.
Sicily, Italy- for names of the lanner falcon in several european languages for "Lanner Falcon".
Christian Lindknud, cand. scient. anth.
Lyon, FranceAnother longtime friend - for his willingness to help, constructive criticism, for proof-reading, and for bringing errors in my HTML-code to my attention.
Jari Kangas
Helsinki, FinlandFor the finnish name of the osprey.
Janet Linthicum
Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group
U.S.A.- for her willingness to help, for bringing several titles on articles on raptor biology to my attention and for the "Guide to management of peregrine falcons at the eyrie".
Jeremy Masters
England- for his delightfull hawking stories in 'Round the smoking room fire'.
Dan McCarron, Junior High Science Teacher
Rock Springs, U.S.A.- for allowing me to publish his article 'Animal Rights Issues Stalk Hunters'.
Attilio Roncallo
Secretary of 'Yarak', club di falconeria
Italy- for addresses on falconers associations and booktitles.
Odense University Library
- the staff has been very helpfull and patient with me, when finding articles and books from sometimes very questionable references.
Prof. Dr. Jose M. Fradejas Rueda
Depto. Lengua Espannola y Linguistica General Facultad de Filologia - UNED, Madrid- for bringing several books on cultural aspects of falconry to my attention.
Søren Skarby, photo-journalist
Svendborg, Denmark- for letting me use his outstanding photographs.
Skov- og Naturstyrelsen - The National Forest and Nature Agency, Wildlife Management
- for providing informations and clarification on various legal topics and for 'Status for the administration of the rules regarding the possession of birds of prey and owls in captivity'.
Maria Vretemark, Doctor in archaology
Skaraborgs Länsmuseum, Sweden- for allowing me to publish 'Jakt med dresserad rovfågel i Sverige under yngre järnålder' (Hunting with trained raptors in Sweden during the early iron-age), and the english summary of 'Storgravsprojektet - osteologiska analyser av yngre järnålderns benrika brandgravar' (The chieftaingrave-project - osteological analyses of bone-rich cremation-graves from the early iron-age) - both concluding that falconry was practiced in Sweden in the early iron-age.
Oliver Wensel, M. Sc., Ph. D.
Slovenia- for information on hawk-eagles and for letting me use his pictures of various birds of prey in 'Birds of Prey'.
Duane Zobrist
The Falconry and Raptor Education Foundation U.S.A.- for a copy of the "Final Environmental Assessment: Falconry and Raptor Propagation Regulations."
The subscribers of 'hawk-l', a mailing list on falconry.
- for inspiration and useful information.
The subscribers of 'Raptor Repertoire', a mailing list on raptor biology, rehabilitation & falconry
- for inspiration and useful information.