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Title: Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors by Pete Dunne, Clay Sutton, David Allen Sibley ISBN: 0-395-42388-0 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: April, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Useful book...
Comment: HAWKS IN FLIGHT by Peter Dunne is a useful book because it includes many photos and drawings of various species of Raptors in flight. When you see a Raptor, you generally have no way to identify it except by it's flight profile. Feather markings simply cannot be seen when a bird is sailing on a current of air or scuttling after prey. Once in a while I've surprised a hawk at rest, but generally it is well hidden in the leaves of a tree and takes off before I can get a good look. Even the Cooper's Hawk I see on my morning commute along the parkway is usually sitting back on a branch waiting for road kill (he is one fat lazy bird).
The photos in HAWKS IN FLIGHT show the birds as seen from the side flying close to the ground and as well as overhead. The book also includes drawings showing birds that resemble each other juxtaposed side by side as they would never appear in nature. Some of the photos are not very clear and the drawings are darker than I like, but no less a birder than Roger Tory Petersen recommended this book which nicely complements his own books.
Although the title includes the reference to hawks, the chapters cover Buteos, Accipiters, Falcons, Kites, Harriers, Eagles, Ospreys, and Vultures. The chapter on Accipiters covers the Cooper's Hawk, the hawk I see by the roadside in Washington DC. We also see Falcons chasing our song birds. A whole lot of back-stabbing goes on in this town.
Rating: 5
Summary: Learn to see the whole bird, not just a few field marks.
Comment: A really great, useable book. Identifying a raptor is rarely difficult if you see it well. This book will help you learn to do it when you don't see the bird well.
When you devote 250 pages to just 23 species, you get to include a lot of information. But this isn't a book that's crammed with facts, figures, and field marks. The descriptions, line drawings, and photographs are intended to teach you how to tell these birds apart in the real world, where profile and silhouette usually matter more than detailed markings. And they work.
Although the coverage is a little biased toward the eastern U.S., this book is invaluable for distinguishing all of the buteos, accipiters, eagles, falcons, and vultures regularly found in North America, except for a number of extreme-southern species. And even if where you live you have to deal with White-tailed Hawks and Hook-billed Kites, and hope someday to find a Crane Hawk, at least this book will help you to become expert with the more widespread species.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hawks in Flight, great source
Comment: This book is a must have for any raptor fanatic. I used to be so confused on how to tell all those buteos apart, except when it was an obvious red tail. It is definatly worth the money, it is not meant to be a "ooh look at the pretty pictures kind of bird book", it is a holistic approach to identification, you learn about flight traits of each raptor, overall impression, plumage, etc. Read the whole thing so you really get whats going on. I am much more confident and knowledgeable after having studied this book. Buy it, worth it.
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Title: A Field Guide to Hawks of North America by William S. Clark, Brian K. Wheeler ISBN: 0395670675 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors by Brian K. Wheeler, William S. Clark ISBN: 069111644X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: How to Spot Hawks and Eagles by Clay Sutton, Patricia Taylor Sutton ISBN: 1576300005 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior by David Allen Sibley ISBN: 0679451234 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Wind Masters : The Lives of North American Birds of Prey by Peter Dunne, David Allen Sibley ISBN: 0618340726 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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