| Raptors of the World (Princeton Field Guides) | 
 enlarge | Authors: James Ferguson-lees, David A. Christie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 142872
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0691126844
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.9
EAN: 9780691126845
ASIN: 0691126844
Publication Date: February 6, 2006
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Condition: 2005. Vg condition. Cover once cleanly detached down front spine edge, now neatly reattached, no loosening; slight crinkling to opening pgs, interior bright & clean, unread. 320 p., illus.
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Product Description
This new field guide covers all of the world's kites, vultures, harriers, hawks, buzzards, eagles, and falcons. Based on essential sections of the widely acclaimed handbook Raptors of the World by the same authors, but with updated text, maps, and plates, it shows every species in a selection of different plumages, with concise facing texts and distribution maps. It provides an easy-to-use and portable reference to one of the world's largest, most popular, and most challenging avian groups. - A unique identification guide to all the world's raptors
- 118 color plates show 338 species in flight and perched
- Facing text summarizes size, confusion species, habitat, and behavioral and plumage differences
- Color distribution maps included for every species
- Ideal for use in the field, anywhere in the world
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Essential to know the raptors November 4, 2008
It may be not a book to identify raptors, but is the best to know all of the world, and having so much species, diferencing to other similar guides, it has various draws for each specie in diferent poses.
 One of Two or Three Outstanding Reference Books on Raptors February 9, 2008
There are several advantages to this encyclopedic, endlessly fascinating book.
First, it is one of the few to cover all 300+ diurnal Raptor species. Its full-color identification section provides a comprehensive guide to plumage variations in both juveniles and adults, and, where applicable --to males and females.
Second, it has great utility for lay readers as well as scholars. The descriptive text is readable with solid summary paragraphs, and an extensive bibliography.
Third, for readers shy of its 2001 copyright the book is largely up-to-date given the wholesale habitat destruction and climate change we witness today.
It is not a field guide,but for those who prefer one, I love Wheeler's Raptor guides to eastern or western species. It surely provides excellent preparatory reading for a vacation or field trip, enabling even casual readers to identify the most common species by appearance, morph/race, habitat, feeding and a wide range of behaviors.
For university students,interpretive docents and serious Raptor devotees, there is no other reference which provides as much for the price Amazon charges. While I had some minor gripes about production issues, pages are heavy and acid-free, promising a lifetime of use.
There are other comprehensive texts on diurnal Raptors, and some very competitive texts on owls by Lynch and Johnsgard; but for a home or scholarly library, there is no other work that comes close to this one.
 Buono (quasi) March 21, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
La sovracopertina del libro si presenta parzialmente rovinata perche il libro non e stato imballato in modo adeguato. L'orribile ordine di spedizione e stato INCOLLATO sulla sovracopertina e le tracce sono andate via solo con molta fatica (e parzialmente rovinando la sovracopertina).
Per il resto, il volume e in ottime condizioni.
Beautifully done November 6, 2006
This book contains some beautiful illustrations and I'd recommend it to anyone interested in raptors.
T.T December 2, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is the ultimate book on all birds of prey. There is no other book that can eclipse the effort the two authors put into this book. The Helm field guide series( which this book belongs) is the most through study of any bird gruop. This book has exhausting information from description, feeding habits, to population and movements(migration habits). This book might be exspensive, but it is worth every penny. Raptors are among the most challenging bird groups to study, and this book is need to indentify them accurately. Also, if you like studying Gulls, the book "Gulls of North America, Europe, Asia" is another good book to buy. It's said that gulls are the most challenging bird groups to identify. Buy this book with this one, and you will have a less of a hard time indentifying this two of the most difficult bird groups.
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