This guide shows how to recognize hawks the way we recognize friends at a distance: by body shape, movements, and locale.
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The standard field guides tend to assume that the observer will be close enough to the bird to pick out details of color and patterns for identification. Hawks, falcons, and their kin, however, are often seen in flight at distances far too great for color and pattern to be apparent: can they still be accurately identified? Yes, say the authors of this guide to the 23 most abundant and widespread raptors of the United States and Canada, who then show how with text and pictures. Serious birders can, and will want to, learn these techniques, so the book will be a worthwhile addition to all popular ornithology collections. (Photos not seen). Paul Cors, Univ. of Wyoming Lib., Laramie
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"A landmark . . . a book I could learn a lot from." -- Roger Tory Peterson
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There is no other guide which even approaches Hawks in Flight for thoroughness, clarity, and utility. Anyone who seriously pursues the sport of hawk watching must have this book.
For those just starting out in hawk watching, and for general use by even the most serious hawk watchers, I strongly recommend another work by Dunne et al., Hawk Watch: A Guide for Beginners, which is a large-format condensed version of Hawks in Flight. this book does focus exclusively on eastern species, however. Having both books is ideal.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
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.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book/guide.
A great book and a must read for anyone who wishes to be involved in any sort of distant hawk identification! The book arrived on time and was in the condition noted when posted. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Josh
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Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant...
This book is an excellent adjunct for any birder interested in hawk identification. I enjoyed the format which does not provide only pictures for the process of identification. Read more
Published on December 8, 2010 by Martin Berthiaume
5.0 out of 5 stars
The raptor book to own
Currently reading this and this is the book I hear from more people as the one to own if you want to learn how to ID raptors. Read more
Published on November 3, 2010 by Chadwin Eric Kauffman
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still one of the best
I bought this book when it first came out in 1989 and it was just about the only raptor-only book out there at the time, and I found it quite useful. Read more
Published on January 6, 2008 by magellan
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hawks in Flight Review
Excellent book. Great black and white drawings of adults and immatures of many species as well as different "phases" of the same species. Read more
Published on January 11, 2007 by Neil P. Baker
5.0 out of 5 stars
First class
Of the dozen or so raptor identification books I own, I have learned the most from this book. The standard Peterson's guides work pretty well if you can get within 50 feet of a... Read more
Published on July 17, 2006 by Dave Holland
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great companion book to other raptor field guides
"Hawks in Flight" is a different kind of ID field guide. Most guides feature many colored plates and or photographs of the birds. Read more
Published on August 18, 2005 by D. Bakken
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, not perfect, but good
Buteo identification has always been a challenge for me, but over the Christmas Day Birdcount I was able to get an identification I would have never gotten without the volume. Read more
Published on December 27, 2004 by Carmen C. Arendt
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hawks in Flight, great source
This book is a must have for any raptor fanatic. I used to be so confused on how to tell all those buteos apart, except when it was an obvious red tail. Read more
Published on March 26, 2004 by Carl Andrews
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent book
This is a really interesting book. It has some photographs (which have inspired me to get out to Cape May and other cool birding havens) but most of the pictures are black &... Read more
Published on November 23, 2003 by merrymousies
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- Field Guide to the Birds; Eastern land and water birds by Roger Tory Peterson in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent on page 66, and Back Matter
- Hawks Aloft: The Story of Hawk Mountain by Maurice Broun in Back Matter
- Birds of Prey (American Nature Guides) by Philip Burton in Back Matter
- Guide to Hawk Watching in North America (Birding Series) by Donald S. Heintzelman in Back Matter
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- American Safari (Discovery Travel Adventures) by Judith Dunham in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Florida's Birds: A Handbook and Reference by Herbert W. Kale II in Front Matter
- Season at the Point: The Birds and Birders of Cape May by Thomas Connor on page 55
- Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges by Bill Thompson III on page 381
- Birds of Lake Pond & Marsh: Water and Wetland Birds of Eastern North America by John Eastman in Back Matter
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