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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

10,000 Birds

Gaily color-banded, I’ve no doubt each individual is well-known to science. Skimmers, of course, use that laterally flattened mandible to cut the water and leave a trail of light–intriguing to small fish at dusk. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. Now that’s a jutting jaw.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

10,000 Birds

This is where we learn how to differentiate Broad-winged migrating hawks from Red-tails, immature Bald Eagles from immature Golden Eagles, Northern Harriers from “the rest” and, of course, that classic conundrum, how to know a Sharp-shinned Hawk from a Cooper’s Hawk. These are not just drawings of hawks per se.