North American Birds of Prey"Grows out of the well-known volume by John Bichard May, The Hawks of North America...In revising and expanding that earlier work, Alexander Sprunt, Jr., has covered the American owls, in addition to the kites, vultures, and accipiters, the buteonine hawks, the eagles, ospreys, and caracaras, and the falcons. In his account of each species the author describes the bird as it may be seen in its natural habitat, in flight or in pursuit of prey. The descriptive history is preceded by a detailed summary of the bird's local names, its characteristic for recognition, nesting habits, and range." --Dust jacket. |
Contents
Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson | ix |
THE VULTURES | 25 |
THE KITES | 33 |
Copyright | |
8 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
Accipiters Alaska Allan Brooks Arizona Audubon Bald Eagle band Barred Owl birds of prey Blackbird blackish Breeds British Columbia brownish buff Buzzard Caracara Carolina central color Cooper's Hawk Crow dark brown diet Duck Hawk eastern Eggs Elf Owl English Sparrow European Starling Everglade feathers feet female flight Florida Golden Eagle Goshawk gray ground Gyrfalcons HAWK Buteo Horned Owl immature inches insects Kite Lower California Magpie male Marsh Hawk Mexican Mexico mice Mountains nest North northern numbers occasionally Osprey Otus asio OWL Otus asio perched phase Pigeon Hawk plumage poultry Prairie Falcon predation protection pure white Pygmy Owl quoting RANGE raptores RECOGNITION RED-SHOULDERED RED-TAILED HAWK reddish rodents Rough-legged Hawk SCREECH OWL Otus Sharp-shinned Hawk small mammals Snowy Owl soaring southern Sparrow Hawk species spotted Starling stomachs streaked tail Texas trees underparts white Upperparts dark usually Vulture western White-tailed whitish wildlife wings wingspread Winters