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Some books locally available.

The Hills

Worldwide families

These books offer synopses of all avian families. Of interest because they show taxonomy actually in use by book authors.

Harris, Tim (ed.) (2009). National Geographic complete birds of the world. Washington, D.C.: The National Geographic Society. ISBN 978-1-4262-0403-6. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)

Raptor sections:

• New World vultures Cathartidae, pp. 71–72.
• Falcons Falconidae, pp. 73–75.
• Hawks, kites, and eagles, Accipitridae, pp. 76–79. (includes osprey and secretary bird)

All 3 sections by Donna L. Dittmann, Steven W. Cardiff.

"National Geographic Birds of the World generally follows the taxonomy of Howard and Moore, ..." p. 15(section How to use this book).

Australian guides

Descriptions of Australian species. Might not have much info about suprageneric taxonomy or phylogeny.

Simpson & Day

Simpson, Ken; Day, Nicolas (2004). Field guide to the birds of Australia (7 ed.). Camberwell, Victoria: Penguin Group (Australia). ISBN 0 670 04180 7.

Species descriptions, distribution; focus on subspecies/races. CH 598 FIE

Trounson

Trounson, Donald; Trounson, Molly (1996). Australian birds: simply classified (4 ed.). Smithfield, NSW: Gary Allen Pty Ltd. [note, need ISBN] CH REF

Notable for using the terms "soaring kite" and "hovering kite", p. 6.

Accipitridae

"This diverse family of eighteen Australian members, from a world total of over 200, divides conveniently into seven groups." p. 6.

Eagles (3: wedge-tailed, little eagle, white-bellied sea-eagle); osprey; soaring kites (5 spp.); hovering kites (elanid kites, 2 spp. from a world total of 4, black-shouldered and letter-winged); goshawks and sparrowhawks (3 Accipiter and 1 Erythrotriorchis); harriers (2 spp. from 17 world); bazas (1 sp.).

Falconidae

6 spp. from world total 61.

Debus

Debus, Stephen J. S. (1998). The birds of prey of Australia: a field guide. Melbourne: Oxford University Press Australia. ISBN 0 19 550624 3.

Other

Génsbøl, Benny; Walters, Martin (trans.) (2008). Birds of Prey. London: HarperCollinsPublishers. ISBN 9 78 0 00 724814 8.

Génsbøl, Benny; Boghandel, Gyldendalske (2004). Rovfuglene i Europa, Nordafrika og Mellemøsten (in Danish) (4 ed.). Nordisk Forlag A/S.

Covers all European species.