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It adds high-quality color photos to Sibley's artwork and the highly-detailed and instructive text to become the go-to reference for Raptors aloft.

This book is an excellent adjunct for any birder interested in hawk identification. I think this is one of the. Better books I have or seen I ID ing hawks and describing there patterns and type of flight. I enjoyed the format which does not provide only pictures for the process of identification. The book makes an effort to educate the reader by understanding the probability of the bird type based on dates, recognizing flight patterns in addition to bird shape to improve identification. I am amazed at the distances I can identify a raptor when you use the knowledge gained by this resource.

Finally, I find that David Sibley has the ability to educate me to certain specifics with his drawings - for me. .Hawks in Flight was the first "specialty" guide I ever read in birding, and I found it very useful.

Finally, I find that David Sibley has the ability to educate me to certain specifics with his drawings - for me it has been posture. Between his "The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America," and this book, I am beginning to appreciate how much information he packs into one of his pen and ink drawings. Between Sibley's drawings, Dunne's writing, and Sutton's photographs, I felt like I had advanced a few grades in mere days.

by Pete Dunne, David Sibley, Clay Sutton. Hawks in Flight, great source. Published by Thriftbooks. Peter Dunne's experience at hawk migration stations helped him to distill hawk identification keys and he presents the information in an interesting way. com User, 15 years ago. This book is a must have for any raptor fanatic. I used to be so confused on how to tell all those buteos apart, except when it was an obvious red tail. This is not your usual dry field guide. Learn to see the whole bird, not just a few field marks.

Pete Dunne is director of the Cape May Bird Observatory and the author of many books. Clay Sutton is a freelance writer, naturalist, lecturer, and tour leader.

Dunne, Peter, Sibley, David Allen. Published by Houghton Mifflin (1988)

Dunne, Peter, Sibley, David Allen. Published by Houghton Mifflin (1988). ISBN 10: 0395423880 ISBN 13: 9780395423882.

David Allen Sibley (born 22 October 1961, in Plattsburgh, New York) is an American ornithologist. He is the author and illustrator of The Sibley Guide to Birds, which rivals Roger Tory Peterson's as the most comprehensive guides for North American ornithological field identification. The son of Yale University ornithologist Fred Sibley, David Sibley began birding in childhood. Sibley got his start as a birdwatcher in Cape May Point, New Jersey in 1980, after dropping out of college.