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Zusatztext "This is an outstanding identification guide to the birds of prey of North America, and deserves a place in every serious birder's library. Indeed it would be my first recommendation to anyone considering the purchase of a guide to North American raptors. It distills a vast amount of information and experience into a novel format that will be useful to birders at all levels of experience. The Crossley Guide: Raptors achieves its goal of making learning easy and fun, and is about as close as reading a book can come to actually being out in the field with an expert. It will be hard to go back to the older guides now!" ---Peter Candido, Discovery Informationen zum Autor Richard Crossley is an internationally acclaimed birder and photographer and the award-winning author of The Crossley ID Guide series (Princeton/Crossley Books), which has been recognized for its pioneering approach to bird identification. He is also a coauthor of The Shorebird Guide and the cofounder of the Pledge to Fledge global birding initiative, and he is working on multiple birding projects involving mixed media and new technologies such as birdcams. Jerry Liguori is the author of Hawks from Every Angle and Hawks at a Distance (both Princeton). He has been studying raptors throughout North America for more than twenty-five years and has conducted hawk counts at numerous spring and fall migration sites. Brian Sullivan is the coauthor of the forthcoming Princeton Guide to North American Birds . He is eBird project leader and photographic editor of the Birds of North America Online at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, as well as photographic editor for the American Birding Association's journal, North American Birds . Klappentext Praise for "The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds" ""The Crossley ID Guide" is an interesting, multi-dimensional, unique take on a bird guide that delivers to a high standard for a specific target audience."--Alan Tilmouth Zusammenfassung Part of the revolutionary "Crossley ID Guide" series, this is the first raptor guide with lifelike scenes composed from multiple photographs--scenes that allow readers to identify raptors just as the experts do. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 5-6 Introduction 7-9 Raptor Topography 10-11 Species Accounts Images! Accounts Turkey Vulture 12! 175 Black Vulture 16! 177 Crested Caracara 22! 179 California Condor 24! 180 Bald Eagle 26! 183 Golden Eagle 30! 186 Osprey 36! 190 Northern Harrier 40! 192 Sharp-shinned Hawk 44! 195 Cooper's Hawk 48! 197 Northern Goshawk 54! 200 Red-tailed Hawk 60! 203 Swainson's Hawk 70! 209 White-tailed Hawk 76! 212 Ferruginous Hawk 78! 214 Rough-legged Hawk 82! 217 Red-shouldered Hawk 88! 220 Broad-winged Hawk 92! 223 Gray Hawk 98! 226 Short-tailed Hawk 100! 228 Harris's Hawk 102! 230 Common Black-Hawk 104! 232 Zone-tailed Hawk 106! 234 Snail Kite 110! 236 Hook-billed Kite 114! 238 Swallow-tailed Kite 116! 240 Mississippi Kite 118! 242 White-tailed Kite 122! 243 American Kestrel 128! 245 Merlin 132! 248 Peregrine Falcon 136! 251 Prairie Falcon 140! 254 Gyrfalcon 144! 256 Aplomado Falcon 146! 259 Mystery Photo Images 18-21! 34-35! 42-43! 46-47! 50-53! 56-59! 66-69! 74-75! 80-81! 86-87! 94-97! 108-9! 124-27! 142-43! 147-71 Mystery Photo Answers 261-283 Glossary 284 Acknowledgments 285 Index 286 ...
