Harpy Eagle - a symbol of raptor conservation in the region.


This and eight additional plates are still available for sponsorship!


 
 

Raptors of South America is the first field guide dealing exclusively with the identification of the 96 species of raptors occurring in South America.


The guide will be approximately 500 pages long, and 6 x 9 inches in size, fitting easily in a small backpack, with all known plumages of the 96 species of raptors occurring in South America!  Illustrated in more than 100 color plates and complemented by hundreds of color photos.   

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December 2009


Raptor Trip to

Northwestern Argentinean Patagonia

Ors Kovacs, Bill Clark, Carlos Kovacs, and field guide author Sergio Seipke in Mueso Ornitológico Patagónico, El Bolsón (Photo by Ildiko Szabo).


Between 1-10 December 2009 raptor ID world authority Bill Clark, Ildiko Szabo, and field guide author Sergio Seipke traveled through central Argentina to northwestern Argentinean Patagonia to study plumage variation and molt of raptors.  Trip highlights included a visit to the Museo Ornitológico Patagónico in El Bolsón to study rare Rufous-tailed Hawk specimens, and a gigantic, multi-thousand bird flock of Swainson’s Hawk in northern La Pampa.

Adult male, light morph Swainson’s Hawk undergoing molt in La Pampa (Photo by Sergio Seipke).




November 2009

Visiting the

Museu de Zoología da Universidade de São Paulo

(Photo by Marco Antonio Rego)


Between 9-20 November 2009 project artist Freddy Pallinger (left) and the author (right) studied specimens of raptors held at the MZUSP, in Brazil.  Museum specimens are important in this project because they provide evidence of geographical and seasonal occurrence, they provide information on plumage patterns and variation, they unveil timing, extent and sequence of body and quill molt, and they can be measured more easily than living birds.




October 2009

Raptor Trip to Bolivia

Between 16-27 October 2009 project photographer Darío Podestá (not in the photo!), the author Sergio Seipke (left), and Elaine Radford, Monica Evans and Laurie Resseguie (left to right) surveyed a variety of habitats in central Bolivia to document raptor occurrence and plumage variation.  The team encountered several montane forest eagles including a juvenile Black-and-chestnut Eagle and two pairs of Black Solitary-Eagle ...can you tell which is which in the photos below?
(Photos by Darío Podestá)




September 2009


Art Collection Series exhibit at

Hawk Mountain


Field guide author Sergio Seipke presenting plates in the Art Collection Series at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary 75th Anniversary (Photo by Ruth Tingay).


On Saturday 12 September 2009 -after 75 years working in raptor conservation- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary members had the unique opportunity to look at plates in the Art Collection Series up close at the Visitor Center.  This daylong exhibit was the only time the Art Collection Series will be ever displayed in public.  The plate “Tiny Forest-Falcon” was sponsored that very same weekend!


Thanks Hawk Mountain for providing us with this opportunity!


 

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