A Field Guide to Hawks of North America

by Clark, William S.; Wheeler, Brian K.

• ISBN13: 9780395670682
• ISBN10: 0395670683
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

This guide includes all 39 species of North American hawks and other diurnal raptors, including eagles, falcons, and vultures. Color paintings and photographs show each species in various color morphs and plumages, which are aso described in detail.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
List of Plates	ix
Introduction	1	(9)
How to Use This Book	10	(2)
List of Terms	12	(5)
PLATES	17	(82)
SPECIES ACCOUNTS	99	(214)
New World Vultures: Cathartidae	101	(12)
Black Vulture	102	(3)
Turkey Vulture	105	(4)
California Condor	109	(4)
Osspreys: Pandioninae	113	(6)
Osprey	113	(6)
Kites: Accipitridae	119	(22)
Hook-billed Kite	119	(4)
Swallow-tailed Kite	123	(4)
White-tailed Kite	127	(4)
Snail Kite	131	(4)
Mississippi Kite	135	(6)
Sea and Fishing Eagles: Haliaeetus	141	(8)
Bald Eagle	141	(8)
Harriers: Circus	149	(6)
Northern Harrier	149	(6)
Accipiters: Accipiter	155	(15)
Sharp-shinned Hawk	156	(4)
Cooper's Hawk	160	(5)
Northern Goshawk	165	(5)
Buteonines: Accipitridae	170	(71)
Common Black-Hawk	170	(5)
Harris's Hawk	175	(3)
Gray Hawk	178	(4)
Red-shouldered Hawk	182	(7)
Broad-winged Hawk	189	(4)
Short-tailed Hawk	193	(5)
Swainson's Hawk	198	(7)
White-tailed Hawk	205	(5)
Zone-tailed Hawk	210	(3)
Red-tailed Hawk	213	(9)
Harlan's Hawk	222	(5)
Ferruginous Hawk	227	(6)
Rough-legged Hawk	233	(8)
Booted Eagles: Aquila	241	(6)
Golden Eagle	241	(6)
Falcons: Falconidae	247	(34)
Crested Caracara	248	(4)
American Kestrel	252	(4)
Merlin	256	(6)
Aplomado Falcon	262	(3)
Gryfalcon	265	(5)
Peregrine Falcon	270	(6)
Prairie Falcon	276	(5)
Vagrants: Accipitridae and Falconidae	281	(32)
Eurasian Honey Buzzard	281	(3)
Black Kite	284	(2)
Egyptian Vulture	286	(2)
White-tailed Eagle	288	(3)
Steller's Sea Eagle	291	(3)
Marsh Harrier	294	(1)
Crane Hawk	295	(2)
Roadside Hawk	297	(3)
Booted Eagle	300	(2)
Collared Forest-Falcon	302	(2)
Common Kestrel	304	(4)
Eurasian Hobby	308	(5)
References	313	(1)
Index	314

Excerpts

NORTHERN GOSHAWK Pl. 13 Accipiter gentilisDescription The Northern Goshawk, our largest accipiter, is a breeding resident in northern and western mountain forests. Wings are long for an accipiter, rather buteo-like. Tip of folded tail is wedge-shaped. Sexes are almost alike in plumage, with females separably larger than males. Juvenile plumage is different from that of adults. Cere is greenish yellow to yellow. Legs are yellow. On perched birds, wingtips extend halfway to tail tip. Widespread race atricapillus is described below.ADULT: Head is black except for wide white superciliary lines and whitish throat. Eye color varies from orange to red to mahogany, darkening with age. Back and upperwing coverts are blue-gray and average darker on females; they contrast with blackish uppersides of flight feathers. Underwing coverts and underparts are pale blue-gray with fine black vermiculations and some vertical black streaking. Females usually have coarser, darker barring and more vertical black streaking. Primaries show dusky banding on undersides; secondaries show, at most, faint banding. Tail is blue-gray, with three or four incomplete blackish bands. Undertail coverts are white and fluffy.

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