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Raptors : We spend many entertaining hours viewing raptors. Their behaviors, flights, perches, always provide interesting opportunities for photography. Enjoy. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments.

We spend many entertaining hours viewing raptors. Their behaviors, fl ...

Updated: Jun 05, 2009 12:34am PST

Cooper's Hawks : A collection of photos of a Cooper's Hawk with freshly killed prey.

A collection of photos of a Cooper's Hawk with freshly killed prey.

Updated: Oct 26, 2008 2:34pm PST

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American Bald Eagle

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Osprey Taking Flight - Mahon Beach, Delaware :

Osprey Taking Flight - Mahon Beach, D...

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Barn Owl : From Wikipedia: The Barn Owl is a pale, long-winged, long-legged owl, a with squarish tail. Tail shape is a way of distinguishing the Barn Owl from owls of the strigidae family. 33–39 cm in length with an 80–95 cm wingspan. Its head and upperparts are buff, and the underparts are white. The face is heart shaped. In the US it is incorrectly sometimes called Screech Owl because the Barn Owl has a notable shreee scream, ear-shattering at close range. It can hiss like a snake, and when captured or cornered, it throws itself on its back and flails with sharp-taloned feet, an effective defence. Contrary to popular belief, it does not make the call "tu-whit to-whoo" (which is made by the Tawny Owl). It is a bird of open country, such as farmland, preferring to hunt along the edges of woods. The Barn Owl feeds primarily on small vertebrates, particularly rodents, but also birds and reptiles. It also sometimes eats insects. Studies have shown that an individual Barn Owl may eat one or more rodents per night; a nesting pair and their young can eat more than 1000 rodents per year. It has an effortless wavering flight as it quarters pastures or similar hunting grounds. Alternative names often refer to the appearance, white underparts, or eerie, silent flight, including Monkey-faced Owl, Ghost Owl, Church Owl, Golden Owl, Rat Owl and Stone Owl. Like most owls, the Barn Owl flies silently; tiny serrations on the leading edges of its flight feathers help to break up the flow of air over its wings, thereby reducing turbulence—and the noise that accompanies it. They hunt by flying low and slowly over an area of open ground, hovering over spots that conceal potential prey.

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From Wikipedia: The Barn Owl is a pale, long-winged, long-legged owl, ...

Updated: Feb 22, 2008 7:10pm PST

American Kestrel (male) : From Wikipedia: The American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) is the smallest falcon in North America - about the size of an American Robin. This bird was (and sometimes still is) colloquially known in North America as the "Sparrow Hawk". This name is misleading because it implied a connection with the Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus, which is unrelated - the latter is a accipiter hawk rather than a falcon; moreover, falcons and accipiters are only very distantly related among the diurnal raptors.
American Kestrels are widely distributed across the Americas. Their breeding range extends from central and western Alaska across northern Canada to Nova Scotia, and south throughout North America, into central Mexico, the Baja, and the Caribbean. They are local breeders in Central America and are widely distributed throughout South America.
Most of the birds breeding in Canada and the northern United States migrate south in the winter, although some males stay as year-round residents. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe.

American Kestrel (male)

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Updated: Feb 22, 2008 7:08pm PST

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