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Article: Raptors of the World: A Field Guide.(Book review)
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- The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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RAPTORS OF THE WORLD: A FIELD GUIDE. By James Ferguson-Lees and David Christie. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. 2005:320 pp., 16 figs., 118 plates, and 7 tables. ISBN: 13-978-0-69112684-5. $29.95 (paper).--This new "field guide" to the vultures, hawks, eagles, and falcons of the world represents a distillation of the earlier "identification sections" of the handbook-sized, Raptors of the World, by the same authors (Houghton Mifflin, 2001). One hundred and eighteen color plates by Kim Franklin, David Meade, Philip Burton, and Alan Harris illustrate 338 species of raptors, perched and in flight. There are 77 pages of useful introductory materials, ...