10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

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., The original Hawks in Flight treated 23 raptors, the major hawks that migrate through North America.

North America 222

North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 222

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

My birder’s brain struggled mightily to reconcile the odd shapes in the sky with any known species, but their call brought it all back. I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay. From the tail band, it looks like an immature.

Florida 145

Florida Tail Banding Ducks Ohio 145

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

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. The chapter also gives hope.

Betty Crocker 170

Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170