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The Wind Masters: The Lives of North American Birds of Prey
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The Wind Masters: The Lives of North American Birds of Prey Paperback - 2003

by Dunne, Pete, Sibley, David

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Vividly written by "the bard of birding" and beautifully illustrated by acclaimed bird artist Sibley, "The Wind Masters" shows what it is like to be a bird of prey. Line drawings throughout.

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Collins Reference. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.
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  • Title The Wind Masters: The Lives of North American Birds of Prey
  • Author Dunne, Pete, Sibley, David
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Collins Reference, Boston
  • Date 2003-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # K05O-01060
  • ISBN 9780618340729 / 0618340726
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.38 x 5.52 x 0.66 in (21.29 x 14.02 x 1.68 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95018314
  • Dewey Decimal Code 598.910

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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.

First line

A YELLOW SUN CRESTED the horizon, making the frozen landscape blaze, stirring momentary interest in the bird perched near the mouth of the grotto.