Long-eared Owl

Long-eared Owl

Eagle Owl

Eagle Owl

Secretarybird

Secretarybird

Tawny Owl

Tawny Owl

Common Kestrel

Common Kestrel

Red Kite

Red Kite

The Red Kite  (Milvus milvus)  is found in the Western Palearctic region in Europe and northwest Africa.

The Red Kite's diet consists mainly of small mammals such as mice, voles, shrews, young hares and rabbits. It also feeds on a wide variety of carrion including sheep carcasses and dead game birds.

The red Kites build the nest on a main fork or a limb high in a tree.

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Pygmy Owl

Pygmy Owl

The Eurasian Pygmy Owl (Glaucidium passerinum) can be found in Northern and Central Europe, and east to Siberia.

Eurasian Pygmy Owls nest in tree cavities; many times in old woodpecker holes.

The diet of the Eurasian Pygmy Owl includes mostly small vertebrate mammals like voles, lemmings, and mice.

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Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle

The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is an bird that lives in North America. It is America's national bird. The bird occurs locally from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska in the north to northwestern Mexico in the south. The Bald Eagle occurs not only on the coast but often inland on rivers and large lakes. They build their nest in a large, old lonely tree that allows a good view of the surroundings during nesting. Besides eating live fish the bald eagles catch other birds, small mammals, snakes, turtles and crabs. Like most eagles, they also eat carrion. Bald eagles catch fish in shallow water with their claws. They often follow other seabirds to find fish, and sometimes steal prey from Ospreys.

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Redtailed Hawk

Redtailed Hawk

The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "chickenhawk," though it rarely preys on standard sized chickens. It breeds throughout most of North America, from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies, and is one of the most common buteos in North America.

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Great Horned Owl

Great Horned Owl

The Great Horned Owl(Bubo virginianus) is an American owl. It is found in many environments, from forests, deserts and even residential areas. It, however, tend to prefer open terrain as meadows and cultivated fields. The Great Horned Owl, who hunts at night catching small mammals (it is one of the few animals that take skunks) and birds (including predatory birds other owls, peregrine falcons and ospreys), but also reptiles, amphibians.

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Barred Owl

Barred Owl

The Barred Owl (Strix varia) is a large typical owl native to North America. It goes by many other names, including Eight Hooter, Rain Owl, Wood Owl, and Striped Owl, but is probably best known as the Hoot Owl based on its call. Breeding habitats are dense woods across Canada, the eastern United States, and south to Mexico. In recent years it has spread to the northwestern United States, having gradually spread further south in the west. The Barred Owl's nest is often in a tree cavity, often ones created by pileated woodpeckers. The Barred Owl is a very opportunistic predator. The principal prey of this owl are meadow voles, followed by mice and shrews of various species.

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Short-eared Owl

Short-eared Owl

The Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus) has a very large range and is found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. It breeds in North America, the Caribbean, South America, North and Central Eurasia and the Pacific. Parts of the population are resident birds such as the South American subspecies, while others are migratory birds, including the populations of the nominate subspecies A. f flammeus that breed in North America and northern Eurasia. These migratory birds are wintering in the United States, Mexico, on scattered sites in Europe, North and Central Africa, Middle East, India and Southeast Asia.

 The Short-eared Owl hunts for the most at dusk and in the morning, and is thus more active during the day than the other owls. It mainly captures small rodents but can also catch other small animals and birds and their chicks.

The Short-eared Owl nests on the ground.

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Boreal Owl

Boreal Owl

The Boreal owl (Aegolius funereus) is also known as the Tengmalm's Owl after Swedish naturalist Peter Gustaf Tengmalm. The Boreal owl nests in dense coniferous or mixed forests of northern Eurasia and North America, and in mountain ranges such as the Alps and the Rocky Mountains.

Tengmalm's Owl is only active at night and rest during the day, preferably inside a dense spruce.

This little owl takes small prey, particularly voles, wood mice, lemmings and other small mammals, but also small birds and large insects.

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The Great Grey Owl in flight

Great Grey Owl

Lapland Owl or Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa)

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Montagu's Harrier

Montqagu's Harrier

Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus) is a migratory bird breeding in Europe and northern Africa, east through Russia, Turkey, Iran and China. In winter the bird migrate to tropical Africa, India and the Maldives.

Montagu's harrier prefers drier breeding grounds than the hen harrier and the marsh harrier.

Its diet consists of small rodents, small birds and their eggs, and as an alternative amphibians, lizards and insects.

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Northern Harrier

Northern Harrier

The Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) is a migratory bird that breeds across the northern parts of the northern hemisphere, in Canada, America and northern Eurasia. In winter, the Palearctic populations move to more southern areas of Europe, northern Africa and temperate Asia, and occurs as far north as in southern Sweden and northern Britain. The nearktiska populations move to the southern region of the U.S., to Mexico and Central America. In the milder breeding areas, such as France, Britain and southern U.S. the Northern Harrier can occur year round.

The Northern Harrier is a bird of prey that nests in moorland and wetlands, but also in the culture districts in Eurasia.

The birds place their nest on the ground.

The Northern Harrier hunts small mammals and birds by slowly gliding over fields and moors. During hunt the harrier often emits sounds.

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Rough-legged Buzzard

Rough-legged Buzzard

The Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus) called the Rough-legged Hawk in North America, breed in tundra and taiga habitats of North America and Eurasia between the Latitudes of 61 and 76 ° N. The Rough-legged Buzzard occurring in North America migrate to the central United States for the winter, while Eurasian Individuals migrate to southern Europe and Asia.

The nest is built on a cliff or tall tree.

The Rough-legged Buzzard is largely dependent on the availability of lemmings. In good lemming years, the bird can lay up to seven eggs and when lemmings are missing the nesting might not occur.

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Gyrfalcon

Gyrfalcon

The Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus) occur in mountainous regions and on the tundra around the entire northern hemisphere. It occurs in Canada, USA, Mexico, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Greece, Russia and China. Western European and American populations are strongly linked to water. Hunting Falcon is a none-migratory bird. The gyrfalcon moves spontaneously over long distances.

The gyrfalcon prefers abandoned nests from other raptors (including eagles) or crows.

The diet is to some extent opportunistic, but a majority of breeding birds mostly rely on Lagopus grouse and avian marine species on coastal habitats. Avian prey can range in size from redpolls to geese and can include gulls, corvids, smaller passerines, waders, and other raptors (up to the size of Buteos). Mammalian prey can range in size from shrews to marmots (sometimes thrice the weight of the assaulting falcon), and often includes lemmings, voles, ground squirrels, and hares.

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Black Kite

Black Kite

The Black Kite (Milvus migrans) is probably the earth's most numerous bird of prey. Black Kites breed in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Parts of the population is migratory birds, while others are resident birds.

The Black Kite's diet consists of small animals (rodents), fish, household waste and carrion.

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Merlin

Merlin

The Merlin (Falco columbarius) is a compact, small falcons that nest circumpolar in the northern hemisphere and is the smallest falcon in Europe. The species has a northern circumpolar distribution and breeds in Iceland, British Isles, Scandinavia, Baltic States, northern Asia and North America. Most of the world population are migrants.

The Merlin often nests in abandoned nests by corvids or pigeons.

The Merlin hunts mainly birds, but sometimes rodents and insects. The Merlin can take its prey in the air and on the ground. The Merlin likes to sit on a slightly elevated location looking for prey.

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