Hawks at My Wingtip

by Bill Welch

The New England Hawk Migration Study combined the world of hawkwatching and aeronautical engineering for a unique view of birds in flight. Specially outfitted in a Sperber motorglider, which allowed slow, sustained highly maneuverable flying, author Bill Welch and his colleagues followed the hawks on their East Coast migrations, riding the same thermals as the raptors, and making detailed observations never before possible of hawk flight and navigation.With...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896210987
• ISBN13: 9780896210981
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: North Country Books
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"