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"What's so different about the Crossley ID Guide? Everything. Crossley has designed his guide to reflect the way we see and identify birds. We identify birds by their size, shape, structure, behavior, habitat, and field marks. We [see] birds at close range, at middle and long distances, on the ground, in flight, in trees, and on the water. . . . If you want to be a better birder you will find the new Crossley ID Guide to be [a] major innovation and a valuable tool."--Wayne Mones, Audubon.org

Whether you are a novice or an expert, this one-of-a-kind guide will show you an entirely new way to look at these spectacular birds.

• The most complete guide to North American raptors, written by some of the foremost experts
• The first raptor guide using Richard Crossley's acclaimed, innovative composite images that show birds as they actually appear in the field
• 101 stunning color plates--including thirty-five double-page layouts--composed from thousands of photographs
• Comparative, multispecies plates and photos of mystery species that allow readers to test their growing identification skills
• Complete with introduction, 34 color maps, and detailed species accounts

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The Raptors guide is the second in the popular The Crossley ID Guide series. We published the Eastern Birds in 2011. What was the response like to the Eastern Birds guide? Did anything surprise you?

The response has been everything I hoped for. No real surprises.

You've been traveling a lot to talk about The Crossley ID Guide. What has the response been from birders?

Mixed. Most love it, but some are finding old habits die hard. The Peterson system was a game changer in its day and some people have spent their whole life looking at a sideways bird on a white piece of paper with an arrow pointing at one of the bird's features. But I've always thought ...

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Innovative Cape May birder and photographer Richard Crossley captures every detail of North America’s diurnal raptors with gorgeous double-page vistas and multiple plates for each species. Raptor experts Brian Sullivan and Jerry Liguori contribute extensive, authoritative species accounts to round out the most beautiful and complete raptor book available. In spring 2011, we published The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds and introduced a new way to not only look at birds, but to truly see them. The highly visual approach . . .

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Richard Crossley is an internationally acclaimed birder and photographer and the award-winning author of The Crossley ID Guide series (Princeton/Crossley Books), which has been recognized for its pioneering approach to bird identification. He is also a coauthor of The Shorebird Guide and the cofounder of the Pledge to Fledge global birding initiative, and he is working on multiple birding projects involving mixed media and new technologies such as birdcams. (author photo by Michael Engelmeyer)

Jerry Liguori is the author of Hawks from Every Angle and Hawks at a Distance (both Princeton). He has been studying raptors throughout North America for more than twenty-five years and has conducted hawk counts at numerous spring and fall migration sites. (author photo by Aaron Barna)

Brian Sullivan is the coauthor of the forthcoming Princeton Guide to North American Birds. He is eBird project leader and photographic editor of the Birds of North America Online at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, as well as photographic editor for the American Birding Association's journal, North American Birds. (author photo by Jessie Barry)