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The animal on the cover of RT Essentials is a northern harrier (Circus cyaneus). Harrier is the common name for 13 species of birds of prey, characterized by long legs, long, broad wings, and an owl-like ruffle of feathers surrounding the face.

Long known as the marsh hawk in the United States and as the hen harrier in England, the northern harrier is the only species of harrier found in North America. A full-grown adult will normally be between 16 and 24 inches in length. The females often grow to be larger than the males.

Northern harriers inhabit open country, primarily marshes and grasslands. They hunt by crisscrossing the area at a low elevation, then dropping on their prey. They feed on small rodents, frogs, snakes, and occasionally birds. In search of prey, the harrier will cover up to 100 miles per day, detecting small animals with its extremely keen hearing.

The northern harrier is considered one of the most agile and acrobatic birds in North America. During the breeding season, the male performs a spectacular courtship flight consisting of a series of U-shaped maneuvers.

Darren Kelly was the production editor, and Julie Campbell was the copyeditor and proofreader for RT Essentials. Jamie Peppard and Colleen Gorman provided quality control. Julie Bess wrote the index. Amy Hassos provided production services.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. The tip and warning icons were drawn by Christopher Bing. This colophon was written by Darren Kelly.

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    RT Essentials
    RT Essentials
    ISBN: 0596006683
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 166

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