The Wind Masters: The Lives of North American Birds of Prey

by Dunne, Pete

• ISBN13: 9780618340729
• ISBN10: 0618340726
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

Even people with little interest in birds will stop in their tracks at the sight of a hawk soaring overhead or a falcon perched on a window ledge. Birds of prey have an aura that few other creatures have. In the acclaimed Hawks in Flight, Pete Dunne showed what birds of prey look like. In The Wind Masters, he shows what it is like to be a bird of prey. He takes us inside the lives and minds of all thirty-four species of diurnal raptors found in North America--hawks, falcons, eagles, vultures, the osprey, and the harrier--and shows us how each bird sees the world, hunts its prey, finds and courts its mate, rears its young, grows up, grows old, and dies. Vividly written, and beautifully illustrated by David Sibley, The Wind Masters is a brilliant work of narrative natural history in the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's The Wind Birds and Barry Lopez's Of Wolves and Men.

Author Biography

Pete Dunne is the author of nine books, The vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society and director of its Cape May Bird Observatory, he has written columns and articles for virtually every birding magazine as well as the New York Times David Allen Sibley is a renowned bird artist and the author and illustrator of a series of birding guides

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Gyrfalcon	p. 1
Northern Goshawk	p. 8
Short-Tailed Hawk	p. 14
Turkey Vulture	p. 20
Bald Eagle	p. 27
Merlin	p. 36
Crested Caracara	p. 42
Hook-Billed Kite	p. 50
White-Tailed Hawk	p. 56
Red-Tailed Hawk	p. 62
Sharp-Shinned Hawk	p. 70
Red-Shouldered Hawk	p. 80
Harris' Hawk	p. 88
Black Vulture	p. 95
Northern Harrier	p. 103
Peregrine Falcon	p. 111
Swainson's Hawk	p. 121
Snail Kite	p. 128
Ferruginous Hawk	p. 135
Gray Hawk	p. 142
White-Tailed Kite	p. 148
American Kestrel	p. 156
Prairie Falcon	p. 163
Common Black-Hawk	p. 171
Osprey	p. 178
Zone-Tailed Hawk	p. 188
American Swallow-Tailed Kite	p. 194
Mississippi Kite	p. 202
Broad-Winged Hawk	p. 209
Cooper's Hawk	p. 219
Rough-Legged Hawk	p. 226
Golden Eagle	p. 236
California Condor	p. 248
Bibliography	p. 259
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