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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Here are three excellent but very different children’s books I enjoyed this year (two were published in 2013, one in 2011). Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Dawn Publications, March 2011. A second aviary is created. by Carol L.

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

10,000 Birds

But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., ” There are the classic field marks, size of head and shape of tail, but, we are told, never rely on just one or two features!