Raptors of New Mexico

Auteur

Jean-Luc Cartron (M.D., 1991, University of Paris Val de Marne, France; and Ph.D., 1995, Biology, University of New Mexico) is a research assistant professor at the University of New Mexico and director of the Drylands Institute New Mexico office. He has written numerous articles on raptor ecology and is coauthor of A Field Guide to the Plants and Animals of the Middle Rio Grande Bosque (UNMP).

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Résumé
Focuses on the birds of prey of New Mexico. This book presents the history of the word 'raptor'. It uses the order of Raptatores, or Raptores to classify birds of prey in the early nineteenth century, derived from the Latin word raptor, one who seizes by force.