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Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors In Flight
Jerry Liguori
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Description for Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors In Flight
Paperback. Offers a different approach that looks at the birds from various angles, compares and contrasts similar species, and provides the pictures (and words) needed for identification in the field. This book pinpoints identification traits for each species from the various angles that they are seen. Num Pages: 144 pages, 339 color photos. 32 b/w photos. 2 maps. BIC Classification: PSVW6; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 190 x 9. Weight in Grams: 457.
Identifying hawks in flight is a tricky business. Across North America, tens of thousands of people gather every spring and fall at more than one thousand known hawk migration sites--from New Jersey's Cape May to California's Golden Gate. Yet, as many discover, a standard field guide, with its emphasis on plumage, is often of little help in identifying those raptors soaring, gliding, or flapping far, far away. Hawks from Every Angle takes hawk identification to new heights. It offers a fresh approach that literally looks at the birds from every angle, compares and contrasts deceptively similar species, and provides the ... Read more
Identifying hawks in flight is a tricky business. Across North America, tens of thousands of people gather every spring and fall at more than one thousand known hawk migration sites--from New Jersey's Cape May to California's Golden Gate. Yet, as many discover, a standard field guide, with its emphasis on plumage, is often of little help in identifying those raptors soaring, gliding, or flapping far, far away. Hawks from Every Angle takes hawk identification to new heights. It offers a fresh approach that literally looks at the birds from every angle, compares and contrasts deceptively similar species, and provides the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691118253
SKU
V9780691118253
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jerry Liguori
Jerry Liguori, a raptor conservation biologist, has studied hawk identification throughout North America since 1984. He has published many articles on raptors and has consulted on numerous field guides and raptor-related projects.
Reviews for Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors In Flight
"Hawks from Every Angle is a major advance in our knowledge of identifying raptors in flight and as such needs to be in the library (and field pack) of every serious raptor biologist, hawk watcher, and birder going afield in North America."
Donald S. Heintzelman,International Hawkwatcher "Perhaps no one knows the intricacies of raptor identification better than Jerry Liguori... There is ... Read more
Donald S. Heintzelman,International Hawkwatcher "Perhaps no one knows the intricacies of raptor identification better than Jerry Liguori... There is ... Read more