Taking J. A. Baker's celebrated book The Peregrine as its focus, the article seeks to locate Baker's writing within a broader, less elevated field of postwar observation and publication that worked to shape new ways of understanding, apprehending and taking pleasure from the natural environment. This included the recording practices and publications of the national and county naturalist and birdwatching societies that flourished in these years. The article shows how Baker's book was as much the product of this world of organised amateur natural history as it was of the world of high literature. Baker's book also sheds light on the reconfiguring of bird-human relations within competing postwar cultures of nature and the article uses it to explore the relationship between birdwatching and the bird-centred field sport of falconry. As organised birdwatching sought to establish moral authority over other bird-centred countryside pursuits in its understanding of natural relations, it cast field sports and other countryside practices as atavistic and archaic relics of older cultures of nature. Baker's The Peregrine allows us to see the convergences between the close attention to birds of prey and an intimacy with them that was shared by birdwatchers like Baker and falconers, even as Baker's narrative also sheds light on the differences between the two practices.

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消失的游隼：JA Baker，环境危机和以鸟类为中心的自然文化，1954-73

拿 JA Baker 的名著游隼作为其重点，这篇文章试图将贝克的作品定位于战后观察和出版的一个更广泛、不那么高尚的领域，该领域致力于塑造理解、理解和从自然环境中获得乐趣的新方式。这包括这些年来蓬勃发展的国家和县自然主义者和观鸟协会的记录实践和出版物。这篇文章展示了贝克的书如何既是这个有组织的业余自然历史世界的产物，又是高雅文学世界的产物。贝克的书还阐明了战后自然竞争文化中鸟类与人类关系的重新配置，文章用它来探索观鸟与以鸟类为中心的猎鹰野外运动之间的关系。由于有组织的观鸟试图在其对自然关系的理解中建立对其他以鸟类为中心的乡村追求的道德权威，它将野外运动和其他乡村实践视为古老自然文化的返祖和古老遗迹。贝克的游隼让我们看到对猛禽的密切关注与贝克和猎鹰者等观鸟者所共有的亲密关系之间的融合，即使贝克的叙述也揭示了两种做法之间的差异。