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1) Hawks
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46 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A scientific look at hawks, including their habitats, physical characteristics such as their wings, behaviors, relationships with humans, and variety of the hunting raptors in the world today"--
2) Hawks
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47 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and life cycle of hawks.
3) Hawks
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the special features and hunting behavior of hawks and describes the four main groups in North America: bird hawks, soaring hawks, kites, and harriers.
6) Hawk rising
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English
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Early morning and a ruffle of feathers, a shadow gliding through the backyard. High above your house Father Hawk circles, sharp eyes searching for prey. Swoosh! He dives after chipmunks, crows, sparrows, squirrels. Screech! The sun hangs low in the sky as three hungry chicks wait. Will they eat today?
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English
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"As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel for £800 on a Scottish quayside and takes her home...
10) Los halcones
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Series
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Examines the special features and hunting behavior of hawks and describes the four main groups in North America: bird hawks, soaring hawks, kites, and harriers.
13) Hawk quest
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658 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
Description
It is 1072, and the Normans have captured England. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. And in order to free him, a soldier named Vallon must capture four rare hawks. On a heart-stopping journey to the far ends of the earth, braving Arctic seas, Viking warlords, and the blood-drenched battlefields, Vallon and his comrades must track down their quarry one by one in a relentless race against time.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm
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English
Description
What happens when two baby chickens find themselves in a nest with a hawk? Don't hawks usually eat chickens? Sunshine, a red-tailed hawk, can no longer fly free. But her instinct to be a mother is so strong that she builds a nest in her aviary every spring and lays two infertile eggs. One year, Kara, her caretaker, decides to try something different. She gives Sunshine two chicken eggs. Join zoologist Kara Hagedorn and Sunshine to find out what happens...
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