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The Mississippi Kite: Portrait of a Southern Hawk (Corrie Herring Hooks Series)

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Floating on air currents over rural countryside and open city spaces, the Mississippi Kite presents a familiar sight to many of us across the southern United States, even though this graceful hawk isn’t well known by name. This engaging natural history, illustrated with superb color photographs, provides all a bird watcher needs to change into conversant in the kite, its life cycle, and its fascinating history with humans.

Under quite a lot of folk names, including Blue Darter, Grasshopper Hawk, and Mosquito Hawk, the Mississippi Kite ranges all over the southern United States from the coasts of the Carolinas to the plains of the Southwest. The authors describe all aspects of the kite’s life cycle, from breeding and nesting, raising young, and hunting and feeding to the kite’s annual winter migration to South The united states. They also trace its intriguing relationship with humans, from its discovery by Europeans in the nineteenth century to the present day.

For bird lovers and ornithologists alike, The Mississippi Kite will be an very important introduction to a bird well worth knowing. A special section on conservation and a choice of references for further reading complement the text.

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