Hawks at a Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (584 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691135592 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ruiz, My Backyard Visitors"This is an absolute 'must have' for anyone who has ever even briefly wondered, 'What kind of hawk was that?' Practical and beautiful. Extensive color photographs supplemented with black-and-white illustrated shape charts depict the various raptors commonly found in the U.S. It truly is a revolutionary guide and will certainly be a tool for teaching many a hawk watcher in the coming years. The text is to the point and littered with little nuggets of useful information that, from my experience, only years in the field would
A monumental accomplishment Our time must be considered the golden age of book publishing as it relates to hawks, especially North American raptors (the words hawks and raptors pretty much used interchangeably by their enthusiasts). There are so many very excellent books available for every aspect of raptor identification. There are general reference and field guides dedicated to them (like Peterson's or the Princeton guide), excellent photographic guides (the Wheeler guides), books that focus on their migration and books that can be used to identify them in flight (like Sutton's book or Liguori's other excellent book. Unique ID guide for the avid, more experienced birder Jack Holloway BASICS: softcover, 2011, 192pp; nearly 600 small color photos show 29 of the expected 34 species of the hawk/falcon family in the US; all photos show the birds in flight and at a distance; a full-page photo is given for 19 of the raptors; 1-3 pages of text on each bird focuses on describing two things: the bird's flight pattern/behavior and the bird's various plumagesThis is a rather unique book that takes the unconventional approach of purposely basing the entire work on not just small, but on tiny photographs. If that seems unorthodox or even unwise, it is the tiny nature of the photos th. a self-study guide for advanced hawk-watchers Thomas E. Gaskill This volume has two great strengths. (1) It brings together an excellent collection of photographs to show the wide variety of ways that birds of prey can actually look in flight. (2) It has b&w collections in the back that combine on single pages the many postures of each species in flight. Unfortunately, it also has two great weaknesses. (1) The text is very poorly organized and seems to lack a sense of prioritization. (2) The captions on the photographic pages are, likewise, in need of a good edit. For someone who has already read and studied Hawks in Flight by Pete Dunne, David Sibley &
He is the author of "Hawks from Every Angle" (Princeton). He has conducted hawk migration counts at spring and fall migration sites, such as Cape May Point, Sandy Hook, Derby Hill, Braddock Bay, Whitefish Point, and Dinosaur Ridge, and the Goshute, Wasatch, and Sandia mountains. Jerry Liguori has been studying raptors throughout North America since 1984.
Jerry Liguori, a leading expert on North American raptors, factors in new information and approaches for identifying twenty-nine species of raptor in various lighting situations and settings. The ultimate must-have guide for identifying migrant raptors, Hawks at a Distance is the first volume to focus on distant raptors as they are truly seen in the field. Concentrating on features that are genuinely observable at a distance, this concise and practical field guide is ideal for any aspiring or experienced hawk enthusiast.The first guide to focus on distant raptors as they are viewed in the field New information and approaches for identifying distant raptors Illustrates twenty-nine species in various lighting situations and settings 558 color photos and 896 black-and-white images depicting plumage and shape characteristics All aspects of in-flight hawk identification, including flight style and b