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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). They start out in New York City, climbing a skyscraper to see a Peregrine Falcon, the world’s fastest-moving bird, diving at almost 200 miles an hour after a pigeon. A second aviary is created.

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The Grand Old Hawkwatch of the South

10,000 Birds

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.

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The American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of New Jersey: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Wright and Small offer additional material, illustrating anatomical parts, like wing stripe, tail band, and rump, that are used in the species accounts. The Introduction is where you see that this really is a book about New Jersey. In fact, any birder planning to bird New Jersey will benefit from using this book.