There is a curious passage involving a raptor in Simon Schama's curious, interesting, magnificently-written book, Dead Certainties, in which he adverts to the friendship between
George Parkman and John James Audubon.
For a listing of chapters that includes each bird's name, click on Random Footnotes.
All is journey, and in this case, 30 journeys. We can make these particular journeys riding webbook or ebook. The complete ebook, sans ads of course, is available now for purchase: Click here. The introductory web posting of the first two chapters is in full. Click Additional for other postings.
Birds treated, but not featured (see Photo Credits):