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Florida, Of Thee I Sing

10,000 Birds

I don’t get a lot of life birds in North America any more, but this confiding little gent offered himself up to the list: a Florida Scrub-Jay. Gaily color-banded, I’ve no doubt each individual is well-known to science. From the tail band, it looks like an immature. It’s a three-year seagle.

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Hawks In Flight, Second edition: A Review of a New Version of a Birding Classic

10,000 Birds

But, before Jerry Liguori’s wonderful photographic guides of Hawks at a Distance (2011) and Hawks from Every Angle (2005) and before Clark and Wheeler’s classic Field Guide to Hawks of North America (2nd ed., The original Hawks in Flight treated 23 raptors, the major hawks that migrate through North America.