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Scanning the skies for Zone-tailed hawks

10,000 Birds

For me, the key to identifying the difference, comes with the banding on the tail, and when a bit closer, the yellow legs and cere. The tail bands on the adult birds consist of three bands with the third, or lower band much wider and cleaner white.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). The Blues visit 11 more birds around the world (they are very sophisticated bluebirds), from an Arctic Tern in Alaska (migrates the longest distance) to a Horned Sungem Hummingbird in Brazil (fastest wingbeat).