Raptors and Owls of the world
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Secretary Bird after heavy rains in the Nxai Pan NP, Botswana
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Ornate hawk-eagle (Spizaetus ornatus), a fairly large bird of prey, is from the tropical Americas. It is one of four living members of the Spizaetus species of “hawk-eagle” native to the neotropics. Seen in the San Diego Zoo's Eagle Trail. Cnservation status: Near Threatened
This light-morph was sitting pretty right after his meal. They really are stunning hawks. I saw a lovely Ferruginous Hawk nearby but he wasn't as obliging for photos :(.
There are bound to be confrontations when two different raptors share the same hunting territory. The smaller Short-eared Owl always tries to chase away any Harrier in in what it thinks is 'his' local hunting area. It is always very exciting to observe such wild animal behavior.
Market Lake WMA, Idaho
After a brief skirmish, the intruder is escorted off the premises and peace is restored.
A colorful medium sized raptor found pretty much across the country - though in varying frequency. In Goa and Karnataka, I sighted 1000's literally. The sky was full of them everywhere within 4-5 kms of a water body - and there were water bodies everywhere.
This is a male based on the colorful plumage and it was sitting atop this coconut tree and preening itself. This was shot in some mudflats and there were 1000's of waders. The bird would dive and scare the birds making the large flock of waders move up and around several times. I suppose it was tiring them out before making a capture.
Interestingly, on the tree behind the bird were two rare White Bellied Sea Eagles - think there was a nest there. That large eagle was a lifer for me, but couldn't manage anything more than a record shot.
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A bald eagle set to get airborne in Pasco County, Florida.
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It's a juvenile Bald Eagle, processed for the Thursday Monochrome and Monochrome Bokeh Thursday groups.
HMT & HMBT
Twice yesterday (March 2) this bird made kills. Here it is eating a House Finch. For those who may not know. the diet for Sharp-shinned hawks is mostly birds. This is in my backyard, Yakima County, Washington. I don't like the white snow background but that was my only option. Although it is not evident from this photo the hawk is sitting on large snow covered planter. about 30 feet from me. IMG_4624
RKO_6388. Determination in process.
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Osprey
12.00.15.12.2024
"And now for something completely different"
This year I spent all my time with black redstarts. I did however, for one morning, go down to Horn Mill Trout Farm, Rutland with my friend Ivan Ellison, leaving at midnight for an early morning start. It was getting late in the year for ospreys but we knew some birds were knocking around so we took pot luck and hired a hide. Ivan had a Canon R6 mkII which has blazingly fast subject tracking and he got some wonderful diving shots. As for me well I am crap. We had two opportunities in half decent light and I missed the first one whilst changing a tele-converter and on the second occasion I missed the splash but got the osprey after it had dropped the fish. So here it is my only shot of the morning. It is full frame but it shows the effects of rolling shutter in the background. This effect is the worst thing associated with the Canon R7 but in truth for most of what I do it makes little difference. We finished by mid morning and we drove back to Manchester and I attended to my black redstarts. I asked myself was the trip worth the expense and all the travelling....answer, yes! It's the experience, the hope, the anticipation and seeing these birds close up. Also if it were easy it would not be worthwhile. For the record, I am crap at flight shots, always have been and always will be.
Paperhand Puppet Intervention Performance
Forest Theatre
Chapel Hill, NC
Sony NEX-6, Canon FDn 50mm/f1.4 lens
[Explored on 2015/09/17]
I can't say which breed of raptor this is, I saw it years ago at a country show. Can anyone tell me what type of bird of prey it is? Thank you for the identification which is that it is a Gyr Falcon.
I posted this in 2019, and decided today to redo with better noise reduction software: DxO PureRAW 3.
These small raptors have become more fearful of humans (us) in the past four years.
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Taken late afternoon just as the light was turning a beautiful gold yellow colour,never usually that lucky.