White-tailed sea eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla, male 1, female 2, short-toed snake-eagle, Circaetus gallicus 3, osprey, Pandion haliaetus 4, red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis 5, and buzzard, Buteo buteo 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Graf from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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