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

10,000 Birds

Hawk watchers and birders who look at hawks (not always the same group!) There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. The original Hawks in Flight treated 23 raptors, the major hawks that migrate through North America. have been blessed with many guides.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

The targeted age group is 6 to 11 years. Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Clue: El Yunque is featured on one of the coins in the America the Beautiful Quarters program.). It really isn’t. A second aviary is created.

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Charles Harper’s Birds & Words: A Review of a Classic Reborn

10,000 Birds

Yet, it is amazing how many identification features are evident in his bird pictures—the fire-red head, streaked back, white wing bars, and white-tipped tertials of the Western Tanager, the white tail band on the Eastern Kingbird, the black-bordered white eyebrow of the Red-eyed Vireo.