About the Author
Vic McLeran has been a falconer and raptor freak for decades. His favorite is the Cooper's hawk, a bird he views as the "ultimate winged athlete." A former newspaperman, magazine staffer, editor and freelance journalist, McLeran has served as information-education chief for both the Kansas Forestry, Fish and Game Commission and the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission. His articles and natural history profiles have appeared in Sports Afield, Outdoor Life, Southern Outdoors, and Saltwater Sportsman among others, and in the book, Successful Outdoor Writing. He currently lives, writes and hunts his Cooper's hawk among the Cross Timbers of Oklahoma.
"A naturalist with the soul of a poet, Vic McLeran deserves to be read alongside such diverse authors as T.H. White and David Quammen, E.O. Wilson and Dan O'Brien. He's that good."
--STEPHEN BODIO, author of On the Edge of the Wild,
A Rage for Falcons, Querencia, Aloft and Good Guns
among others.
