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.
December 2009
Raptor Trip to
Northwestern Argentinean Patagonia

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.


November 2009
Visiting the
Museu de Zoología da Universidade de São Paulo

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



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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The information presented here is for promotional purposes only. The contents in the actual book may differ from those presented here. Princeton University Press, the author, the sponsors, and other third parties involved in this project assume no responsibility for such differences.
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