Flight Identification of Raptors of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East is a 2016 field guide by Dick Forsman, a Finnish ornithologist, with the purpose of helping the reader identify raptors (that is, birds of prey), in flight. It is part of the Helm Identification Guides series. The book is Forsman's second about raptor identification, following his 1999 book , which also covered perched birds. Unlike the 1999 book, Flight Identification of Raptors covers North Africa, and includes over 60 species (compared to 43 in the first book), with both North African species and rare vagrants to the Western Palearctic region (Europe, North Africa and the Middle East), such as Pallas' fish eagle, being added. The book is a photographic field guide, and contains an introduction, two essays from