Dust jacket notes:  "This is one of those rare books which hugely entertain while imparting a great deal of scientific information for the wildlife biologist, ornithologist, and birding and banding enthusiast.  It is also a fine tale, well told, of the wild and rowdy side of wildlife work few people know.  Fran Hamerstrom's adventures are hilarious, unique, and even dangerous at times.  She has trapped raptors and been raked by their talons.  She has dropped a car through the ice not once but three times in an effort to trap and band snowy owls.  She has climbed a sky-high beech tree to band an eagle.  She has called a police officer a gabboon to his face - and watched him beam with pride.  You'll find out why Fran bakes a dead mouse in her oven.  You'll meet the Rockford Bunch: a clutch of scruffy teenagers who dislike school and who argue about the fine points of some erudite matter such as the juvenile plumage of the Swainson's hawk.  Hamerstrom exclaims: 'I'd never met people like this before.  Specialized, rowdy scholars - united by their flamboyantly uncouth manners, and above all by their passionate interest in birds of prey.'  Joseph J. Hickey, wildlife ecology professor at the University of Wisconsin describes raptor trappers: 'Officially, they want to band birds to learn about their weight and moult, their later movements, their longevity, and all that.  Underneath, they are unabashed admirers of the wildness, magnificent strength, and awesome flight of creatures at the top of the animal pyramid...they have a youthful zest, and they will endure any hardship and go to any length to catch their birds.  Fran is one of these youthful persons.  In her own light-hearted way, she portrays here the fascinating development of raptor-trapping techniques in the past few decades, a development in which she played a leading role.'"

Birding with a Purpose: Of Raptors, Gabboons, and Other Creatures

Frances Hamerstrom

Biographies & Memoirs

Iowa State University Press

Frances Hamerstrom, a Wisconsin Environmentalist, who worked with Aldo Leopold. A delightful memoir of a debutant brought to Central Wisconsin by her husband to study the Prairie Chicken. Absolutely amazing.

Strictly for the Chickens

Business & Money

Iowa State Press

The author describes thirteen moonlight walks with her children and the nature observations they made.

Walk When the Moon Is Full

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Crossing Pr

Adventure of the Stone Man

Two French children try to keep the secret of their cave from the outside world and from a scientist searching for a rare eagle owl.

Crossing Press

Walk When the Moon Is Full is about two real children, Alan and Elva, who called their father Hammy and their mother Fran. They lived on a 240-acre farm in Wisconsin and longed to go exploring at night. Elva, the younger, liked to climb trees. Animals trusted her to come very close and her keen ears heard the faintest sounds. Alan had a small but sensitive nose that found and remembered smells, just as his mind remembered facts. He liked to find things out. Fran promised the children that she would explore with them twelve times every month when the moon was full for a whole year. Then Alan laughed. The moon is full thirteen times a year. Hammy and Alan laughed because Fran didn t even know the moon is full every 28 days. Each time they walked in the moonlight they found something new; sometimes they found animals eating, playing, or fighting. Once Hammy took the whole family to the city and they were surprised at what they found there, too. This book has thirteen surprises.

Schneider Pubs

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Birding with a Purpose: Of Raptors, Gabboons, and Other Creatures

Strictly for the Chickens

Walk When the Moon Is Full

Adventure of the Stone Man

Walk When the Moon Is Full