Raptors of the world
By: James Ferguson-Lees and David A. Christie ; illustrated by Kim Franklin, David Mead, and Philip Burton.
Contributors: Christie, David A.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 992
Subjects: Birds of prey -- Identification.
Genres: Identification.
Description: "Each species is illustrated by adult, juvenile and selected immature plumages, as well as main geographical races and colour morphs: in all, over 2,000 perched and flying birds, some with typical prey, are depicted on the 112 colour plates. Facing texts highlight the plumages shown and summarise length, wingspan, male-to-female proportion, shape, and flight; habitat is also summarised, which in turn relates to the colour distribution maps.

Plates 1-3 illustrate representatives, in flight, of all 78 genera, grouped by size and zoogeographical regions.".

"The individual accounts which follow the plates section detail distribution and movements; habitat; characters (perched and in flight, and including confusion species); voice; food; sociosexual behaviour; breeding; population; geographical variation; measurements; references. The text is enhanced with numerous line drawings further illustrating specific points about identification and behaviour."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 926-980).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: LIST OF SPECIES 6; title: PREFACE 14; title: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 15; title: INTRODUCTION 17; title: USING THIS BOOK 20; title: ORDERS OF RAPTOR POPULATION SIZES 26; title: RAPTOR TOPOGRAPHY 27; title: MEASURING LENGTHS AND WINGSPANS OF RAPTORS 31; title: SEX AND AGE DIFFERENCES IN SIZES AND SHAPES OF RAPTORS 35; title: IDENTIFYING RAPTORS 40; title: RAPTOR MIGRATION 44; title: RAPTOR MOULT PATTERNS AND AGE CRITERIA by Carl Edelstam 50; title: RAPTOR VISION, HEARING AND OLFACTION by CarlEdelstam 54; title: RAPTOR PLUMAGES AND EXTERNAL STRUCTURE by Carl Edelstam 57; title: TAXONOMY, SEQUENCE AND NOMENCLATURE OF RAPTORS 69; title: ENGLISH NAMES OF RAPTORS 76; title: COLOUR PLATES 80; title: SYSTEMATIC SECTION 305; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY 926; title: INDEX 981.