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The Axia "Know Your Birds of Prey", vol. 2 - Vultures to Falcons CD-ROM gives you a rich set of different paths to learning about the birds of prey of North America. The following description is based on the order in which you will see the program icons in the Program Group: AXIA Birds of Prey.

Axia Birds of Prey

How to Use Axia

Guide to Hawks

Hawks Glossary

Hawk Panorama

Fuertes - Slide Shows

US Fish & Wildlife Video

Table of Contents

Installation Help

Readme


AXIA Birds of Prey

This set of topics are based on the two-window learning environment seen in previous Axia multimedia products, and are organized in a number of levels. The overall structure is outlined below.

Multimedia Presentations

Identification

Groups

All Species

Subspecies and Morphs

Natural History

Habitats

Prey

Nests

Eggs

By Species

Summer Habitats

Winter Habitats

Regions

Detailed Structure

This structure is expanded upon below, to give more detail as to the items that are the subjects of each topic, and the aspects used to describe and compare each item. The topics which can be run from the main contents menus are shown as: Topic Name. The aspects for a topic, or group of topics, are listed on the line above the topic, in italics in parentheses. The items for the topic are stated next to the topic name as: item type(s).

Multimedia Presentations

Introduction to Birds of Prey

Families of Birds of Prey

Identification	ITEMS

Groups

(PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch, Range, Flight Collage)

Vultures and Eagles	species

Kites	species

Hawks	species

Caracara and Falcons	species

(PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch, GraySketch, Silhouette)

By Group	groups

(PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch, Range, Flight Collage)

All Species	species

Subspecies and Morphs

(PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch, GraySketch, Range)

Red-shouldered Hawk	subspecies

Broad-winged Hawk	morphs

Short-tailed Hawk	morphs

Swainson's Hawk	morphs

Red-tailed Hawk	subspecies & morphs

Ferruginous Hawk	morphs

Rough-legged Hawk	morphs

Merlin	subspecies

Peregrine Falcon	subsepcies

Gyrfalcon	morphs

All Species, Subspecies and Morphs  [sic]

Natural History

Habitats

(PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch, GraySketch, Range)

Arctic Tundra	species, subspecies & morphs

Alpine Tundra	species, subspecies & morphs

Mountains and Canyons	species, subspecies & morphs

Deserts            	species, subspecies & morphs

Grasslands	species, subspecies & morphs

Shrublands	species, subspecies & morphs

Deciduous Forests	species, subspecies & morphs

Coniferous Forests	species, subspecies & morphs

Mixed Forests	species, subspecies & morphs

Wetlands (Marshes and Swamps)	species, subspecies & morphs

Riparian (Lakes and Rivers)	species, subspecies & morphs

Seacoasts	species, subspecies & morphs

Agricultural Lands	species, subspecies & morphs

Urban and Residential	species, subspecies & morphs

(SummerHab, WinterHab, PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, FlightSketch, GraySketch)

All Habitats	species, subspecies & morphs

(PreyCollage, PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch)

Prey	types of prey

(NestCollage, PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch)

Nests	types of nests

(EggPhoto, PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, Range)

Eggs	species, subspecies & morphs

By Species

(PerchPhoto, WinterHab, SummerHab, NestCollage, PreyCollage, Behavior)

Vultures and Eagles	species

Kites	species

Hawks	species, subspecies & morphs

Caracara and Falcons	species, subspecies & morphs

All Species	species, subspecies & morphs

(SummerHab, PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch, FlightCollage)

Summer Habitats	types of habitats

(WinterHab, PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch, FlightCollage)

Winter Habitats	types of habitats

Regions

(PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch, GraySketch, Range)

Arctic	species, subspecies & morphs

Alaska	species, subspecies & morphs

Northwest Pacific	species, subspecies & morphs

North Central	species, subspecies & morphs

Northeast Atlantic	species, subspecies & morphs

Mid Central	species, subspecies & morphs

Southeast Atlantic	species, subspecies & morphs

South Central	species, subspecies & morphs

Southwest Pacific	species, subspecies & morphs

(PerchPhoto, FlightPhoto, PerchSketch, FlightSketch, GraySketch)

All Regions	geographic regions


How to Use Axia

These are the user manuals, which are not just on-line, but in a simple presentation mode, using Axia itself to demonstrate how Axia works. Sit back and listen: you will find this introductory time well-spent.


Guide to Hawks

This is a different approach to getting into the subject matter of the birds of prey. Visual menus of birds of prey are used, so that you can select the eagles, or the falcons. On the eagles menu, you have the four North American eagles drawn together on one page, and similarly, the buteos (soaring hawks) menu page has all thirteen buteos together. This way, you can see them as a group, and select from them using visual references.

The Visual Menus are ordered as follows:

Select Bird of Prey Group, with six images:

Vultures

Eagles

Kites

Accipiters, Osprey & Harrier

Buteos

Falcons and Caracara

Group Menus:

each of the above has a menu page, with the species drawn together:

Vultures:

Black Vulture

Turkey Vulture

Eagles:

Bald Eagle

White-tailed Eagle

Steller's Sea-Eagle

Golden Eagle

Kites:

Hook-billed Kite

American Swallow-tailed Kite

White-tailed Kite

Snail Kite

Mississippi Kite

Accipiters, Osprey & Harrier:

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

Northern Goshawk

Osprey

Northern Harrier

Buteos:

Common Black-Hawk

Harris' Hawk

Gray Hawk

Roadside Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Short-tailed Hawk

Swainson's Hawk

White-tailed Hawk

Zone-tailed Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Ferruginous Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk

Falcons & Caracara

Crested Caracara

American Kestrel

Merlin

Aplomado Falcon

Peregrine Falcon

Gyrfalcon

Prairie Falcon

As you move the mouse pointer over an image, its name appears in the text display box. This gives you the opportunity to see if you know which bird is the Ferruginous Hawk, or if the one that you think is the Zone-tailed Hawk is indeed the Zone-tailed Hawk.

If you select one of the species by clicking on it, you will get a simple introductory page to that species, giving a large image of the bird, a range map for the species, and identifying as well as general text on the species. Some pages have a sound button that you can activate.

The introductory page, as well as each menu page, has a LIGHT-BULB icon. If you select it, you will get to the Axia two-window Discrimination Learning environment, and work with one of the AXIA Birds of Prey topics. For example, on both the Falcons menu page, as well as one each Falcon introductory page, clicking on the LIGHT-BULB will take you to the topic Caracara and Falcons, where you can learn the distinctions between the various species of Falcons in more depth.

All thirty-seven species of birds of prey can be explored this way. The LIGHT-BULB on the first menu page takes you to the ByGroup topic in the Identification section of the AXIA Birds of Prey.


Hawks Glossary

This is a new Axia capability. It is essentially a multimedia dictionary, in which you can select or search a number of terms. In the Hawks Glossary, the list of terms are the features and topography of a bird of prey. Each term is pronounced when chosen; an image is shown which points to the place on the bird to which the term refers, and the definition of the term is given in a text box.


Hawk Strip
Hawk Panorama

This is a one more addition to the gamut of learning tools and approaches that Axia International Inc. has put together in this CD-ROM. All the thirty-seven species of birds of prey are arranged in their proper taxonomic relationship according to the American Ornithological Union, and represented in scale (for the average male nominate of the species), as sketched in color, from below in flight. We hope that you find it pleasing as well as educational.


Fuertes (Slide Show)
Fuertes - Slide Shows

This is a doorway to a set of multimedia slide shows, the first of which are of a number of Louis Agassiz Fuertes watercolors of birds of prey, with closeups, courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior.

The slide shows included in this CD-ROM are:

behav.dat	Photos of behavior; species names spoken

flight.dat	Photos of birds of prey in flight; species names spoken

fltcoll.dat	Flight collages; subspecies and maturity level spoken

fuertes.dat	The default slide show; species names spoken

gray.dat	Gray flight sketches; subspecies and maturity level spoken

habcoll.dat	Habitat collages; habitat names spoken

nestcoll.dat	Nest-type collages; nest-types spoken

perchph.dat	Photos of perched birds of prey; species names spoken

prey.dat	Prey collages; prey-types spoken

rthawk.dat	Red-tailed hawk sketches; subspecies and maturity level spoken

videos.dat	All videos in the CD-ROM together; species names spoken

The Axia Multimedia Sequencer has the following operating characteristics:

Press F1 key to obtain control panel

Press ESC key to exit

Press space-bar to pause

Press right arrow key to advance to next slide

Press left arrow key to move to previous slide

Press up or down arrow to replay the sound

Click the left mouse button to advance to next slide

The control panel gives much more capability in this version of the slide show engine that previous Axia products. Specifically, you can, using the control panel:

Choose to use a different slide show

Set the timer to advance the slides automatically

Choose random or sequenced selection of next slide

Set the current slide to any of the current set, using a slider bar

All slide shows in this CD-ROM have been constructed using the Axia learning approach of minimizing the giving of information. Thus, each slide is shown first, possibly with the call of the bird, then a 2 second pause, before the name of the image is spoken. This gives the viewer the opportunity to hypothesize the identity of the image, and to have that verified through the spoken name. Placing the slide show in random creates a test situation. Try it out on the gray flight sketches in gray.dat.

Furthermore, the structure of the slide show data files are obvious, and you can create your own slide shows. Any images from the CD-ROM can be used. You can add to them by specifying the complete path name of the image or sound file. However, the slide show engine can only be used with the CD-ROM.


US Fish & Wildlife Video

This is a public information video from the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, concerning conservation. We hope that you find its message as important and interesting as we did. Axia International Inc. was very pleased to have the privilege of including this public information message in our CD-ROM.


Table Of  Contents

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Installation Help

This help file is a guide to some of the common problems that are encountered when installing multimedia software on PC platforms.


Readme

This contains information on various system-related aspects of the CD-ROM.

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