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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. ” 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! What are you seeing?

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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). Only, instead of a group of children going on scientific adventures with their teacher, a band of five young bluebirds go on bird watching adventures on their own.

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Seabirding off Cape Point

10,000 Birds

Here and there the occasional Cape Gannet can be seen plunge-diving in the distance, while Kelp Gulls in loose groups fly past on their way out to the trawling grounds.

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