Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, Part Two

by Arthur Cleveland Bent

Photographs depicting nesting habits accompany descriptions of more than one hundred subspecies of hawks, eagles, falcons, buzzards, condors, and owls.

482 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1958

About the author

Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866 – 1954) was an American ornithologist. He is notable for his encyclopedic 21-volume work, Life Histories of North American Birds, published 1919-1968 and completed posthumously, which received the John Burroughs Medal in 1940.

Reviews

[Sarah]

Originally published in the 1930s, some of the information obviously is out of date, but still informative and more entertaining/colorful language than modern field guides. Also interesting since it is from a different era and the author did a lot of egg collecting in his 40+ years leading up to publishing this book, in addition to a lot of other activities that were commonplace at the time, now not only illegal but outrageous.