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North American Birds of Prey: National Audubon Society Pocket Guide (Audubon Society Pocket Guides)
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North American Birds of Prey: National Audubon Society Pocket Guide (Audubon Society Pocket Guides)
by Audubon

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Brimming with concise descriptions and sharp color photographs, the National Audubon Society Pocket Guide to North American Birds of Prey is designed to be compact enough for nature-lovers to easily bring along when observing birds of prey. This...
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Condor: To the Brink and Back--The Life and Times of One Giant Bird
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Condor: To the Brink and Back--The Life and Times of One Giant Bird
by John Nielsen

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The California condor, with a wingspan of nineandndash;andandndash;aandndash;half feet and a history as old as the Redwoods, should be extinct by now. It should not be soaring over the Grand Canyon, Big Sur, and southandndash;central California. It...
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Hawks, Eagles and Falcons of North America: Biology and Natural History
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Hawks, Eagles and Falcons of North America: Biology and Natural History
by Paul A Johnsgard

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The author first discusses the evolutionary history of raptors and the morphological features they share, then in succeeding chapters details their comparative ecology, food and foraging, behavior, and reproductive biology. Individual species accounts...
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Hawks: All the Day-Flying Birds of Prey Seen in North America
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Hawks: All the Day-Flying Birds of Prey Seen in North America
by Roger Tory Peterson

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All the day-flying birds of prey seen in North America.Peterson FlashGuides are the most compact and convenient field guides ever made: slim as road maps and ideal for hikers, bikers, canoeists, or anyone who wants to travel light....
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The Return of the Bald Eagle
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The Return of the Bald Eagle
by Priscilla Tucker

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Account of the eagles' comeback and their continuing struggle to reclaim their rightful status in the natural world. Includes a viewing guide to all the contiguous states plus Alaska....
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Falconry for Beginners: An Introduction to the Sport
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Falconry for Beginners: An Introduction to the Sport
by Lee W Harris

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Practical guide, ideal for the novice, which is also useful for the more experienced falconer. 57 colour photos, 40 line drawings....
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Guide to Hawk Watching in North America (Falconguide)
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Guide to Hawk Watching in North America (Falconguide)
by Donald Heintzelman

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Hawk migrations are among the most extraordinary animal spectacles in the world. Each year tens of thousands of raptors follow the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coastlines, inland mountain ridges, and northern and western Great Lakes shorelines en route to...
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The Goshawk (New York Review Books Classics)
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The Goshawk (New York Review Books Classics)
by T H White

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What is it that binds human beings to other animals? T. H. White, the author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham's Repose, was a young writer who found himself rifling through old handbooks of falconry. A particular sentence--the bird...
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The Bald Eagle: Haunts and Habits of a Wilderness Monarch (Smithsonian Nature Book)
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The Bald Eagle: Haunts and Habits of a Wilderness Monarch (Smithsonian Nature Book)
by John M Gerrard

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Describes the morphology, behavior, flight patterns, hunting, migration, nesting, development, and growth of bald eagles....
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On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
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On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
by Alan Tennant

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In this extraordinary narrative, Alan Tennant, a passionate observer of nature, recounts his all-out effort to radio-track the transcontinental migration of the peregrine falcon — an investigation no one before him had ever taken to such lengths....
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Return of the Eagle: How America Saved Its National Symbol
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Return of the Eagle: How America Saved Its National Symbol
by Greg Breining

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Spectacular color photos capture the majesty of bald eagles in this inspiring story of how the United States saved its living symbol of independence....
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The Peregrine (New York Review Books Classics)
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The Peregrine (New York Review Books Classics)
by J A Baker

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From fall to spring, J.A. Baker set out to track the daily comings and goings of a pair of peregrine falcons across the flat fen lands of eastern England. He followed the birds obsessively, observing them in the air and on the ground, in pursuit of their...
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Conversations with an Eagle: The Story of a Remarkable Relationship
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Conversations with an Eagle: The Story of a Remarkable Relationship
by Brenda Cox

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<div>“Nothing in the world prepares you for an eagle leaping to your arm, ” says the author of this moving memoir. When Brenda Cox found Ichabod, a ten-week-old female bald eagle blown out of her nest, a profound...
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Raptors of Western North America: The Wheeler Guide
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Raptors of Western North America: The Wheeler Guide
by Brian K. Wheeler

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"Brian Wheeler's background as a raptor artist and photographer combined with his extensive field experience provide the foundation for an excellent book. The detailed plumage descriptions of each species and sub-species, 630 newly published raptor...
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Raptors of the World
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Raptors of the World
by James Ferguson Lees

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A guide covering all the world's 313 raptor species illustrated with adult, juvenile and selected immature plumages as well as main geographical races....
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Migrating Raptors of the World: Their Ecology and Conservation
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Migrating Raptors of the World: Their Ecology and Conservation
by Keith L. Bildstein

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Many raptors, the hawks, eagles, and falcons of the world, migrate over long distances, often in impressively large numbers. Many avoid crossing wide expanses of water and follow “flyways” to optimize soaring potential. Atmospheric conditions and...
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Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors
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Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors
by Peter Dunne

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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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Birds of Prey (Portrait of the Animal World)
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Birds of Prey (Portrait of the Animal World)
by Leonard Lee Rue

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An introduction to birds of prey. Previously published price 14.95....
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Birds of Prey in the American West (Natural History Series)
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Birds of Prey in the American West (Natural History Series)
by Tom Vezo

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The American West boasts the greatest variety of birds of prey in North America. In Birds of Prey in the American West acclaimed photographer Tom Vezo and raptor expert Clay Sutton celebrate the power and majesty of these remarkable creatures which...
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Peregrine Falcons
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Peregrine Falcons
by Candace Savage

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Featuring 100 full color photographs by such well-known nature photographs as Galen Rowell and Art Wolfe, Peregrine Falcons offers a stunning photographic tribute to the grace and beauty of this fierce and ecologically threatened bird of prey....
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