Raptors of the WorldPrinceton University Press, 2005 - 320 страница This new field guide covers all of the world's kites, vultures, harriers, hawks, buzzards, eagles, and falcons. Based on essential sections of the widely acclaimed handbook Raptors of the World by the same authors, but with updated text, maps, and plates, it shows every species in a selection of different plumages, with concise facing texts and distribution maps. It provides an easy-to-use and portable reference to one of the world's largest, most popular, and most challenging avian groups.
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LIST OF SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES 4 | |
INTRODUCTION 26 | |
SEX AND AGE DIFFERENCES IN SIZES AND SHAPES OF RAPTORS 42 | |
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2a Adult 2a Adult male 2d Juvenile abdomen Accipiter Adult female Adult nominate Africa Argentina Asia barred tail beats bill birds Black Kite blackish body/linings breast browner buteonine Buzzard Caracara cere cheeks cm 9 Colombia Common Kestrel coverts cream crest crissum Dark adult dark brown darker David mead DR Congo dusky east edged rufous eyes Falcon Falco fish-eagles flat wings Flight below 2b forest Forest-falcon glides/soars grey-brown greyish Hawk Buteo head Honey-buzzard Hook-billed Kite Juvenile female Juvenile male juvs Kestrel Kite Lammergeier legs Levant Sparrowhawk linings longish tail Mid-sized migration morph mottled moult Myanmar paler perch plain plate plumage prey primaries quills raptors remiges rounded tail rounded wings rufous rufous-buff savannah secondaries Serpent-eagle short of tail-tip smaller Smallish soars Sparrowhawk Accipiter species spots still-hunts streaked subterminal band Swainson's Hawk tail-bands tail-bars thighs thin throat tips variably Vulture white rump whitish wing-linings wing-tips winters