| Description |
1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations, chiefly color, maps, plates |
| Contents |
Introduction ; How to use this guide -- Raptor glossary -- Plates -- Species accounts -- New world vultures : Cathartiformes ; Black vulture -- Turkey vulture -- Lesser yellow-headed vulture -- California condor -- King vulture Osprey : Pandioninae ; Osprey -- |
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Family : Accipitridae ; Gray-headed kite -- Hook-billed kite -- Swallow-tailed kite -- Pearl kite -- White-tailed kite -- Snail kite -- Slender-billed kite -- Double-toothed kite -- Mississippi kite -- Plumbeous kite -- Bald eagle -- Black-collared hawk -- Northern harrier -- Long-winged harrier -- Gray-bellied hawk -- Tiny hawk -- Sharp-shinned hawk -- White-breasted hawk -- Cooper's hawk -- Bicolored hawk -- Northern goshawk -- Crane hawk -- Plumbeous hawk -- Savannah hawk -- Common black hawk -- Great black hawk -- Solitary eagle -- Barred hawk -- Roadside hawk -- Harris's hawk -- White-tailed hawk -- White hawk -- Semiplumbeous hawk -- Gray hawk -- Gray-lined hawk -- Red-shouldered hawk -- Broad-winged hawk -- Short-tailed hawk -- Swainson's hawk -- Zone-tailed hawk -- Red-tailed hawk -- Harlan's hawk -- Ferruginous hawk -- Rough-legged hawk -- Crested eagle -- Harpy eagle -- Golden eagle -- Black hawk-eagle -- Ornate hawk-eagle -- Black and white eagle -- |
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Falconids : Falconidae ; Laughing falcon -- Barred forest-falcon -- Slaty-backed forest-falcon -- Collared forest-falcon -- Red-throated caracara -- Crested caracara -- Yellow-headed caracara -- American kestrel -- Merlin -- Aplomado falcon -- Bat falcon -- Orange-breasted falcon -- Peregrine falcon -- Prairie falcon |
| Summary |
Raptors are among the most challenging birds to identify in the field due to their bewildering variability of plumage, flight silhouettes, and behavior. Raptors of Mexico and Central America is the first illustrated guide to the region's 69 species of raptors, including vagrants. It features 32 stunning color plates and 213 color photos, and a distribution map for each regularly occurring species. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, age-related plumages, status and distribution, subspecies, molt, habitats, behaviors, potential confusion species, and more |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Birds of prey -- Mexico -- Identification
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Birds of prey -- Central America -- Identification
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Birds of prey -- Mexico -- Guidebooks
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Birds of prey -- Central America -- Guidebooks
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TRAVEL -- Central America.
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Birds of prey
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Central America
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
travel guidebooks.
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Field guides
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Guidebooks
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Guidebooks.
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Guides touristiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schmitt, N. John. author.
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Kiff, Lloyd F., author of foreword.
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| LC no. |
2016945499 |
| ISBN |
1400885078 |
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9781400885077 |
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