Denis Wilson advised that 'You've never been really swooped till
you've been swooped (or technically "stooped") by a Peregrine
Falcon...'.
Attached is more on hawks-a-stooping, a key part of the 'sport' of
Magpie Hawking, not so common today as in the past, I believe.
Source: The Field Book, Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United
Kingdom; Comp. from the Best Authorities, Ancient and Modern,
published 1833, free online, scanned by Google from the Harvard Univ
Library.
Good birding for 2015!
David
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