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The author Keith L. Bildstein has watched and studied raptors on five continents and is well prepared to explain their critical importance, not only as ecological entities but also as inspirational tokens across natural and human-dominated landscapes. His book Raptors: The Curious Nature of Diurnal Birds of prey offers a comprehensive and accessible account of raptors, including their evolutionary history, their relationships to other groups of birds, their sensory abilities, their general natural history, their breeding ecology and feeding behavior, and threats to their survival in a human-dominated world…
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From wind turbines to West Nile virus, from rat poisons to habitat loss, raptors have never been in the forefront of so much international press as they are today, and Keith L. Bildstein has done a terrific job of providing essential background information that will allow readers to put these issues in the context of what we now know about raptor biology. Raptors is a stunning overview of its subject and will be welcomed by students, birders, and biologists. Bildstein is the perfect writer for this comprehensive guide to the birds of prey, having spent a lifetime building a community of worldwide raptor colleagues.
Keith L. Bildstein’s Raptors provides one-stop shopping for anyone interested in how diurnal birds of prey go about their lives. Its global reach is impressive. This book is a tour de force that benefits both from its comprehensiveness and from Bildstein’s use of his personal experiences to illuminate raptor biology.
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