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CAPTIVE RAPTOR MANAGEMENT AND REHABILITATION. By Richard Naisbitt and Peter Holz. Hancock House, Surry, British Columbia, Canada. 2004: 168 pp., 107 color photographs, 11 black and white photographs, 80 line drawings and sketches. ISBN: 0-88839-490-X. $39.95 (hardbound).-Located at the migratory bottleneck at Eilat, Israel, at the northern edge of the combined North African deserts of the Sahel, Sahara, and Sinai, I have to contend with several 10s of raptors every spring that have succeeded to make the crossing successfully but that are too emaciated to go any further or blunder into human structures. During spring migration we are called on a daily basis to the tall hotels and the highest buildings to collect birds found by caring citizens and which have a wide range of injuries. The lack of a proper veterinarian in a radius of several 100s of kilometers has forced the staff of the International Birding & Research Centre in Eilat to rehabilitate as many as 300 raptors a season with absolutely no help from the outside. This has forced the dedicated staff to rely heavily...