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I don’t know what it is, but since I bought Dick Forsman‘s “The Raptors of Europe and Middle East” my interest in buzzards has gone through the roof. In fact it got so bad that when we bought a new car, my only decision criteria was whether it had a full glass panorama roof or [...]

Five individual hawks consisting of two separate species are currently making waves in the Carolinas this winter.  They’re not the regular ones, the common open country Red-tailed and the smaller, more suburban Red-shouldered.  No, tails and shoulders would not raise eyebrows at all, let alone inspire legions of avid birders to descend on places as [...]