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Shadow Over the Sun: A Story of Eagles
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Golden eagle in flight

Web Resources:

About: Everything About Raptors
http://birding.about.com/cs/birdsraptors/index.htm
All you need to know about raptors is available at this site by About.com.

Adopt a Bird
http://www.adoptabird.org/
Meet the raptors in the "Adopt-a-Bird Family" -- from Ashe, a Mississippi kite, to Whooie, a barn owl. Then find out how you can sponsor the care of one of these birds.

Carolina Raptor Center: Fun and Games
http://www.carolinaraptorcenter.org/fun_games.php
Create raptor silhouettes and place them on your windows so our feathered friends don't crash. Make a pine cone bird feeder or take the "Name that Raptor" quiz to test your knowledge of birds of prey.

The Golden Eagle Re-Introduction Project
http://www.goldeneagle.ie/
Find out more about the reintroduction of golden eagles to Donegal, Ireland, where they have not lived since 1910.

The Peregrine Fund: Explore Raptors
http://www.peregrinefund.org/Explore_Raptors/
Find out more about raptors -- from eagles to vultures -- and learn about the traits that make them unique.

The Raptor Center
http://www.raptor.cvm.umn.edu/
Track ospreys, bald eagles, and Swainson hawks as they migrate south in this site by the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group
http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/eagles.htm
Visit the golden eagles page and discover their activities in the Diablo Mountains. Learn more birds of prey in the "Raptor Web." Lesson plans and project ideas are available at the "Teacher's Corner."

Related episodes:

NATURE: Eagles
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/eagles/

NATURE: RAPTOR FORCE
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/raptorforce/
RAPTOR FORCE features stunning in-flight footage from miniature cameras mounted on raptor bodies, and examines the predators' complex anatomy and how it influences military aircraft design.

Introduction
Eagle IQ
Interview
What makes a bird a "bird of prey"?
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Books

Grambo, Rebecca L. EAGLES: MASTERS OF THE SKY. Stillwater: Voyageur Press, Inc., 1997.

Love, John and Jeff Watson. THE GOLDEN EAGLE. Buckinghamshire: Shire Publications Ltd., 1990.

Luabach, Christyna M. and Rene and Charles W. G. Smith. RAPTOR! A KID'S GUIDE TO BIRDS OF PREY. North Adams: Storey Books, 2002.

Parry-Jones, Jemima. EAGLE & BIRDS OF PREY. London: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 1997.

Watson, Jeff. THE GOLDEN EAGLE. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Weidensaul, Scott. THE RAPTOR ALMANAC: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO EAGLES, HAWKS, FALCONS, AND VULTURES. Guilford: The Lyons Press, 2000.



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