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

10,000 Birds

As birders in New Jersey recently found out when a Crested Caracara showed up in a farm field in the middle of suburbia, hawks just might show up anywhere! ” 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! Yes, I saw the bird and it was incredible.)

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

10,000 Birds

Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds. He describes his experience in his introduction to Birds & Words : I took my first good look at birds as subject matter. I didn’t see scapulars, auriculars, primaries, tail coverts, tarsi—none of that.