A collection
Raptors
Hooked beaks, taloned feet, and the most efficient hunting eyes in the animal kingdom. Eagles, owls, hawks, falcons, and the rest of the sky-hunters.
Raptors — birds of prey — are defined by their tools: forward-facing eyes that see in fine detail at impossible distances, taloned feet that lock around prey on impact, and hooked beaks built for tearing meat. The order brings together unrelated lineages — eagles and hawks (Accipitriformes), owls (Strigiformes), falcons (Falconiformes) — that arrived at the same hunting solutions independently. This collection covers North American raptors from the sub-Arctic to the Sonoran Desert, drawn in the engraver's tradition that gave the natural-history field its first widely-recognized portraits of these birds.
