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Birds of Prey
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The harpy eagle has to be my favourite bird of prey
Here is a captive one showing he means business  *This image is copyright of its original author
Absolutely amazing, not only getting to see tigers, but this as well!
Incredible moment Golden Eagle swoops down to catch a deer in its talons caught on camera
VIEW GALLERY  *This image is copyright of its original author These stunning photos show the moment a golden eagle swoops down to grab a Sika deer in the snowy wastes of Russia. The shots, taken at a nature reserve in Lazovsky District, were captured by a camera trap. ADVERTISING
The device was set up by Linda Kerley from the Zoological Society of London and her colleagues to monitor Siberian (also known as Amur) tigers in the area.ZSL / Barcroft Media  *This image is copyright of its original author Golden Eagles are known to many different types of prey This is the first documented case of such an attack, although golden eagles are known as fearsome predators. Golden Eagles maintain home ranges or territories that may be as large as 200km. Due to its hunting prowess, the bird is regarded with great reverence in some tribal cultures. Golden Eagles are opportunist hunters and will attack nearly any reasonably sized animal when hunting. If you guys want to see the full gallery http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dra...ps-2297378 
A stunning image by Gagandeep Matharoo. In this image Changeable hawk eagle devouring a shikra
 *This image is copyright of its original author Changeable hawk eagle with a fawn kill, Image by Anish Shah  *This image is copyright of its original author
Steller's at Sun-rise.
Japan still rates as one of my best wildlife destinations...! Juts so many opportunities.. this place is nuts....!  *This image is copyright of its original author This week I share some images of this formidable eagle. They are huge and they are just amazing to photograph.
We spend 4 days on our Japan safari just working the eagles off the Shiretoko Peninsula. I still rate this as my best birding experience ever. (A close second are the BirdCliffs of Svalbard)  *This image is copyright of its original author On the Hunt
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Credits to Renata Ewald.
Fish Eagle.  *This image is copyright of its original author
Between my trips to Africa and India, I was only able to get a shot of one Vulture. I saw a few in India and a couple in Africa but they were so far off I was unable to snap them with my modest lens.
This is the only shot I could get, it was soon harassed by a crow and flew off.  *This image is copyright of its original author Being Harassed  *This image is copyright of its original author
I wanna show you amazing thing. I am Korean and I know some amazing place you could see bird of prey.
1. I just copied and pasted bird of prey in Korea from Wikipedia because it takes too much time to write.
2. The top largest, most powerful, and most famous bird of preys: Cinereous vulture, Bearded vulture, Steller's sea eagle, White tailed eagle, Golden eagle, Blakiston's fish owl, and Eurasian eagle owl. All of those birds are winter migratory birds these days beside Eurasian eagle owl and Blakiston's fish owl. Blakiston's fish owl also living in northern part of Korean peninsula. I will explain "these days" with explain the birds. Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) The golden eagle is the most well known bird of prey in the northern hemisphere. Golden eagle in Asia is bigger than Golden eagle in Europe, North America, Africa, West Asia. Especially the area from Kamchatka, Siberia, Mongolia, Central Asia, and Northern China. I am not sure of golden eagle in Korea. Some says it is subspecies of the smallest golden eagle in Japan. But I think this is wrong information since they are winter migratory birds from northern Asia. I can't find better map of golden eagle. It says dark brown is resident all year and light brown is for winter. But this isn't 100% accurate map, because they are migratory bird in Korea  *This image is copyright of its original author White tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) The white tailed eagle is very common fish eating eagle in Eurasia. The white tailed eagle forms a species pair with the North American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). I don't really know size of white tailed eagle coming in Korea. I think white tailed eagle in Greenland, Scandinavian, and northernmost Asia near North Pole are the biggest. The biggest White tailed eagle was from Greenland. It says light green is nesting range, blue is wintering range, and dark green is resident all year. Just like Golden eagle, I am sure this isn't accurate range map.  *This image is copyright of its original author Steller's Sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) Golden eagle, Bald eagle, and White tailed eagle are roughly equal size. The larger Steller's sea eagle is also live in Korea, but they are coming down Korea in winter since 1950s. 100 years ago was a lot different, because I read BBC news of Steller's sea eagle was actually stayed all year in Korea 100 years ago. There was very interesting story of Steller's sea eagle in Korea. The Korea once had a black color Steller's sea eagle resident all year in Korea, Haliaeetus pelagicus niger. It was last seen in 1968 and thought to be extinct. However, there was a news in 2001. Both "normal" Steller's sea eagle hatched a black color steller's sea eagle. Haliaeetus pelagicus niger was probably polymorphism in steller's sea eagle when they weren't endangered and resident all year in far south Korea. It is this news of black steller's sea eagle http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_new...036698.stm This is map of Steller's sea eagle since 1970s. Green is resident all year, blue is winter range, orange is breeding only, and light purple is other extend range can be discovered.  *This image is copyright of its original author Eurasian eagle-owl (Bubo bubo) The eurasian eagle-owl is consider as one of the largest and one of most powerful owl in the world. They are common in northern hemisphere.  *This image is copyright of its original author Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) The blakiston's fish owl is the definitely the largest owl in the world. But they aren't really powerful as eagle owl in Eurasia, Verreaux's eagle owl in Africa, Great horned owl in Americas. They are very rare bird.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) The Vulture is larger than any other bird of prey like eagle, hawk, buzzard, owl, kite, falcon, and kestrel. The biggest bird of prey is Andean condor, but they aren't actually the same family of "bird of prey." I think New world vulture is still considering as "bird of prey" word anyway since they are eating meat just like old world vulture, eagle, and other bird of prey. Still, cinereous vulture is considering as the largest true bird of prey and the biggest bird of prey in old world along with Himalayan griffon vulture (Gyps himalayensis). I also know cinereous vulture body size is also increases from west to east. Cinereous vulture in Asia is way bigger than cinereous vulture in Europe or middle east just like golden eagle. The largest size of this bird is discovering in East Asia and central Asia like in Manchuria, Korea, Siberia, Mongolia and northern China. The cinereous vulture is coming Korea during winter. People give them food since it is difficult to find carcass in Korea.  *This image is copyright of its original author Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) The lammergeier or bearded vulture is the only living bird species that specializes in feeding on marrow. Range map is showing they aren't living in Korea, but they discovered in Korea before 20th century. The last time the bearded vulture was discovered in Korea was 1918 from record. However, bearded vulture discovered in Korea in 2013 along with cinereous vulture as winter migratory bird. Bearded vulture in Asia is also bigger than bearded vulture in Europe, Africa, and Middle East. The bearded vulture in Himalaya, Karakoram, Kunlun Mountains, and Tibet are the larger than those from other mountain ranges.  *This image is copyright of its original author 3. The golden eagle and White tailed eagle can be found everywhere in northern hemisphere while larger Steller's sea eagle is only discovering in Northeast Asia. Hokkaido island in japan has a really wonderful place to see many steller's sea eagle and white tailed eagle are resting and hunting on iceberg in winter. The blakiston's fish owl is also frequently discovering in these area as well. I am not sure of golden eagle, but larger vultures aren't flying far east in Japan. If you go to north east Asia like Korea, Russia, and northern china. You can see eagles and vultures are searching and gathering foods together. It is very amazing to see them. I don't know there's any places you can observe birds easily in Russia and China. But I know several places you can see wild birds really well. People also provide foods for vultures. I am posting photos from there. These are some amazing photos of eagles and vultures I collected from Korean photographers in Korean website since 2010. More than 60% of birds are young or immature birds are flying to Korea along with adult one. Stellers sea eagle and white tailed eagle in upstream of Han river, Korea.  *This image is copyright of its original author This 1 photo is from hokkaido. The size difference of white tailed eagle and red fox.  *This image is copyright of its original author White tailed eagle adn steller's sea eagle are battling each other for an Eurasian teal in Han river, South Korea.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Now, big daddy cinereous vulture along with smaller stellers sea eagle, white tailed eagle, and golden eagle. Majority of these photos are from Chorwon, is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea. Chorwon is one of the best place to see the cinereous vulture in winter.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author Specimen of eurasian eagle owl, white tailed eagle, and cinereous vulture in Seodaemun Museum of Natural History  *This image is copyright of its original author At last, the photo of rare bearded vulture in Goseong and Goseong Unification Observatory in Korea. This photos from 2013. I wish wildlife and animals can recover just like 200 hundred years ago.  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author
Black Vulture vs Golden Eagle
Stellar vs Golden  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author The big Black Vulture  *This image is copyright of its original author White Tailed Eagle and Stellar  *This image is copyright of its original author Stellar w/handler, another big bird of prey  *This image is copyright of its original author
(07-19-2017, 09:18 PM)Pckts Wrote: Black Vulture vs Golden Eagle This bird is not black vulture . This bird is the Andean condor, the largest "bird of the prey." If you look its head and wing shape. It's definitely not old world vulture. When I was working in zoo, andean condor cage was between the harpy eagle and steller's sea eagle cage. The male Andean condor was like much bigger than both steller's sea eagle and harpy eagle. More than much, I have to say condor was like triple times bigger than eagles.  *This image is copyright of its original author https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/1d/1e/4e/1d1e4e36303b71082f94e74b5286ec58.jpg https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-9e474a25b9f70844caf8ed6b709bc08a-c https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/8e/23/52/8e235204b1eb79267c6a3b5de211ae36.jpg 'Lesley', a juvenile Andean Condor, lands on a platform held by Taronga Zoo animal presentation Unit Supervisor Matthew Kettle during flying lessons February 28, 2006 in Sydney, Australia. The young Andean Condor, which is the world's largest bird of prey species, is being trained to perform in the Zoo's free flight bird show. Look at the massive wings of a juvenile female andean condor. It is easy to see the size of the male andean condor since male is larger than female. I think Andean condor is about the same size as the prehistoric woodward's eagle and extinct haast eagle  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Condors-can-fly-forever-but-they-re-still-in-2522157.php http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/lesley-a-juvenile-andean-condor-lands-on-a-platform-held-by-taronga-picture-id56951782 http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/lesley-a-juvenile-andean-condor-lands-on-a-platform-held-by-taronga-picture-id56982460 (07-20-2017, 06:42 AM)Greatearth Wrote: I think people in wildfact are only interested in big cat, especially the tiger. I don't really see any good discusion about other animals beisde tiger. We need more good posters like yourself who have interesting facts and stories to post to help intrigue others. Regardless of anything else, I'm interested in learning more about them.
Very nice images, world of birds are so amazing, no wonder why many photographers are birder only
(07-20-2017, 06:51 AM)Pckts Wrote:(07-20-2017, 06:42 AM)Greatearth Wrote: I think people in wildfact are only interested in big cat, especially the tiger. I don't really see any good discusion about other animals beisde tiger. Nice to hear that. My most favorite one is the big cat. However, I am also interested in many other animals, geology, nature, and astronomy as well. Just wondered.. Have anyone thought about why does vultures are bigger than other bird of preys like eagle, hawk, buzzard, owl, falcon, kite, and kestrel? They are just carrion eating bird. I don't know carrion eating animal could grow bigger than active hunting animal. I don't have a photo of condors. The Andean condor is the largest bird of prey today. The california condor, cinereous vulture, and himalayan griffon vulture are about the similar size beside himalayan griffon vulture is lighter in average weigh and california condor is a littler shorter in maximum wingspan. The bearded vulture is smaller than andean condor, california condor, cinereous vulture, and himalayan griffon vulture. They are still bigger than eagles and other birds like hawk and owl. I can't understand why does vulture grows so huge more than eagle. Anyone have idea to share?? I heard because they can eat carrion a lot for a short time. But it means they have to suffer long time if they can't find any carcass. The eagle can hunt their prey anytime and they also eat carrion too. Size comparison photos of vulture and eagle. Other bird of prey like hawk, owl, buzzard, falcon, kestrel, and kite are no near size of large vulture and eagle. These photo is from rescue and research centers in Korea. The cinereous vulture and white tailed eagle  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author http://blog.daum.net/bosar/13433574 http://cnwarc.blogspot.com/2012/01/wing-tag.html The eurasian eagle owl and cinereous vulture. Eurasian eagle owl is bigger than American great horned owl in museum in Korea  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_...0001306781 https://www.kookje.co.kr/news2011/asp/ne...2014201816 Male Eurasian eagle owl and female great horned owl The cinereous vulture, steller's sea eagle, and white tailed eagle  *This image is copyright of its original author http://news.joins.com/article/10351429 Male cinereous vulture and female steller's sea eagle  *This image is copyright of its original author Specimen of cinereous vulture, white tailed eagle, and eurasian eagle owl.  *This image is copyright of its original author The golden eagle and bearded vulture in Leukerbad Municipality in Switzerland  *This image is copyright of its original author http://gemmi.ch/infos/animals/?L=2 I don't know where are these photos are came from beside a few. the cinereous vulture and maybe tawny eagle or steppe eagle from Udaipur, Udaipur District, Rajasthan, India  *This image is copyright of its original author http://www.hbw.com/ibc/photo/cinereous-v...ture-eagle the cinereous vulture, himalayan griffon vulture, and egyptian vulture (smallest one) in Jodbeed, near Bikaner, Rajasthan, India  *This image is copyright of its original author http://orientalbirdimages.org/search.php...e_ID=68511 The himalayan griffon vultures and cinereous vulture.  *This image is copyright of its original author http://www.thaibirding.com/news/vultures.htm These are from Mongolia or Tibet  *This image is copyright of its original author https://www.flickr.com/photos/jargals004/28687834520  *This image is copyright of its original author Mongolia 2009  *This image is copyright of its original author http://www.hbw.com/ibc/photo/himalayan-g...ltures-and Cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus) and Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis) with stupas in the background, Napahai Lake, Zhongdian County, Yunnan Province, China. January.  *This image is copyright of its original author https://www.mindenpictures.com/search/pr...10690.html The himalayan griffon vulture, bearded vulture, and golden eagle from Tibet, China  *This image is copyright of its original author https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/
Can you name this bird of prey?
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