| Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors | 
 enlarge | Authors: Clay Sutton, Peter Dunne
Creator: David Allen Sibley
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 37251
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0395510228
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.91097
UPC: 046442510226
EAN: 9780395510223
ASIN: 0395510228
Publication Date: April 12, 1989
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 identification and more January 19, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Hawks In Flight is not only a must-read for its content about hawk identification in the field, but is a delightful addition to our library of books about nature. The authors use colorful language, apt imagery and a sense of humor to give readers/birders a feeling of "can-do" in the discipline of species identification.
 A must for hawk identification tools May 1, 1999
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This book gives excellent information on how to tell hawks apart with very little information. Peter Dunne's experience at hawk migration stations helped him to distill hawk identification keys and he presents the information in an interesting way. This is not your usual dry field guide.
Learn to see the whole bird, not just a few field marks. February 25, 1999
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
A really great, useable book. Identifying a raptor is rarely difficult if you see it well. This book will help you learn to do it when you don't see the bird well.When you devote 250 pages to just 23 species, you get to include a lot of information. But this isn't a book that's crammed with facts, figures, and field marks. The descriptions, line drawings, and photographs are intended to teach you how to tell these birds apart in the real world, where profile and silhouette usually matter more than detailed markings. And they work. Although the coverage is a little biased toward the eastern U.S., this book is invaluable for distinguishing all of the buteos, accipiters, eagles, falcons, and vultures regularly found in North America, except for a number of extreme-southern species. And even if where you live you have to deal with White-tailed Hawks and Hook-billed Kites, and hope someday to find a Crane Hawk, at least this book will help you to become expert with the more widespread species.
A superb guide to the "holistic" method of raptor id. November 18, 1998
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
An excellent guide to the "holistic" method (shape, manner of flight, general impression and behaviour etc.) of raptor identification, used by most hawkwatchers since hawks in flight are generally too distant for identification by field marks, color etc.
Helps begginer hawk watchers become pro. June 6, 1997
This book can teach you to look up and tell what kind of bird of prey it is, even if the bird is hudreds of feet high. It helps you to identifybirds by the they look and fly.
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