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

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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! It’s Hawk Watching Season!

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

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Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Paige Cunningham and Janet Payne both live in the Cape May, New Jersey area and previously collaborated on a book about Cape May A to Z. Hurricane Hugo rips through the island in 1989.

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The Grand Old Hawkwatch of the South

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There’s Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, of course, and that little known Cape May place in New Jersey, not to mention others like Fort Smallwood in Maryland and even Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, which gets some press on the occasions that Corey swings by.