Raptor research and management techniques.

Blaine: Hancock House, 2007.
Quarto, paperback, 464 pp. black and white photographs, text illustrations.

The much anticipated and thoroughly updated version of the popular but long out of print Raptor management techniques manual. The first four chapters, one each on raptor literature, raptor systematics, raptor identification, and study design, data analysis, and the presentation of results, provide a general overview of the field of raptor research. The next ten chapters provide insights into field-study techniques, including surveying and monitoring, behavioural studies, diet analysis, habitat sampling, accessing nests and assessing nest success, capture and marking techniques, and spatial tracking. Four additional chapters provide information on the energetics, physiology, pathology, and toxicology of raptors; five more cover reducing management and researcher disturbance, mitigation, captive breeding, the augmentation of wild populations, and rehabilitation. The work concludes with chapters on public education and legal considerations.