33869 Houghton Mifflin Boston 1988 First Edition VG-/G Hardcover; First Printing Boards are very slightly warped, else binding is clean, sound and unworn. Contents are almost like new. Moderate top edge wear, else minor wear and soil on the complete DJ. ; 8-1/2" Tall, 254pp. Black cloth, bright silver lettering on spine and front cover. NATURE. "Hawks are most often seen hundreds of yards away against the sky, where plumage details and body size are hard to determine even with binoculars. " Identifying hawks, then, "is a matter of the overall impression rather than a few key details..the way they move, their general body shape, and the places they are most likely to be seen....HAWKS IN FLIGHT covers the twenty-three species of diurnal raptors (birds of prey that fly in the daytime) that are most likely to be seen over most of North America...Dunne's clear, lively text describes the characteristic flight, behavior, and migration paterns of each group and each species. Ninety-two beautiful and accurately detailed illustrations by David Sibley and 173 photographs by Clay Sutton and others show the birds in various views. " Illustated endpapers, different front & back. Bibliography. Index. Sharp-shinned hawk. Cooper's hawk. Goshawk. Gryfalcon. Peregrine falcon. Prairie falcon. Merlin. American kestrel. Osprey. Red-tailed hawk. Red-shouldered hawk. Broad-winged hawk. Nothern harrier. Mississippi kite. Black-shouldere d kite. Swallow-tailed kite. Swainson's hawk. Rough-legged hawk. Ferruginous hawk. Black vulture. Turkey vulture. Golden eagle. Bald eagle. 0395423880 $15.00USD
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