List of Plates 6 Preface 8 Acknowledgments 13 Introduction 16 Taxonomy 16 Book Format 19 Key to Maps 25 Identifying Birds of Prey 26 Anatomy and Plumage Glossary 29 Anatomy and Plumage Plate 31 Age Classification and Molt Stages 35 In-Flight Field-Visible Wing and Tail Molt Plate 45 Species Accounts 46 Florida-Only Species and Subspecies 232 Western Species and Subspecies That Are Casual or Accidental in the East 260 Bibliography 284 Abbreviations 294 Index 295
Brian K. Wheeler has been studying, painting, and photographing birds of prey throughout the United States and Canada for more than fifty years. He is the illustrator of Hawks of North America (Peterson Field Guides), the coauthor and photographer of A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors (Princeton), and the author and photographer of Raptors of Eastern North America and Raptors of Western North America (Princeton). His photographs have appeared in many other books and in many bird magazines.
"One of American Birding Podcast's Best Bird Books of 2018 (Donna
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"[T]he art of the classic field guide is not lost but alive and
well in these two volumes from Brian K. Wheeler. . . . These are
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of dissertation, systematic study and detailed exploration. . . .
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Slade, Another Bird Blog
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Birdbooker Report
"Thirteen years in the making, this is an opus of the highest
order, with a mass of information and detail, unrivalled by any
other work presently available."---David Gascoigne, Travels With
Birds
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