Michele Panuccio, the first editor of Migration Strategies of Birds of Prey in Western Palearctic, passed away in June 2019. At the time of his death, he was pursuing a ground-breaking project that eventually became this book. Panuccio's family asked his colleagues and friends Ugo Mellone and Nicolantonio Agostini to complete the book, and they have honored him with its release. We (MAJ and JFT) appreciated being asked to review this book on raptor migration as both of us are raptor biologists studying the migration of raptors at the Austral- and Boreal-Temperate Regions and the Arctic Circle in the Western Hemisphere.
Migration Strategies of Birds of Prey in Western Palearctic brings decades of observations and knowledge on the migration of raptors between the Palearctic region and the Ethiopian and Oriental regions. This compelling book has assembled contemporary data and inference to answer a wide array of questions on raptor...