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For the last 20 years I have been a full-time wildlife photographer. My passion is all wildlife but the raptors, especially the kestrel and the burrowing owl have a huge place in my heart. I have led many workshops and I used to be a high school science teacher. I love what I do and I will continue until I am pushing up some daisies in a beautiful field.

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The Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus), also spelled Gyr Falcon, sometimes Gerfalcon, is the largest of all falcon species. The Gyrfalcon breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia. It is mainly resident, but some Gyrfalcons disperse more widely after the breeding season, or in winter[1]. The bird's common name comes from French gerfaucon, and in mediaeval Latin is rendered as gyrofalco. The first part of the word may come from Old High German gîr (cf. modern German…

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