Download or read book A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors written by Brian K. Wheeler and published by Christopher Helm Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North America boasts a great and bewildering variety of eagles, vultures, true hawks, buteonine hawks and falcons. This book illustrates all 42 diurnal raptors found in North America at rest and in flight, in male, female, adult, juvenile and sub-adult plumages, with all usual colour morphs depicted. This array of photographs is backed up by a concise text which highlights key fieldmarks, covers potential confusion species and gives other relevant information such as measurements, range and flight style.