I wish to know few names of birds of prey?

Question

I wish to know few names of birds of prey?

Answer 1

There are several species of birds of prey.  Here are a few examples.

Hawks: red-tailed hawk

Kites: white-tailed kite

Eagles: golden eagle, bald eagle

Vultures: turkey vulture

Answer 2

Birds of prey are identified by the fact that they are completely carnivorous and obtain all their required nutrients from their prey. Birds of prey include Eagles, Hawkes, Falcons, buzzards, voltures, and even owls.

Answer 3

owls

kestrels

buzzardds

eagles

kites

hawks

harriers... eg hen harrier

vultures . .

Answer 4

hawk

falcon

eagle

buzzards (vulture)

Kites

Harriers

Owls

Kestrels

and the list goes on

Answer 5

All you have to do is Goggle, Birds of Prey. You will have hundreds of pages of birds of prey. As a homing pigeon flier, I have a great amount of disdain for the Birds of Prey. We live not far from the Ohio River. We have two types of falcons in our area. We also see Bald Eagles in the winter sometimes. There are  also three or four types of hawks.

Every time I try to let my racing pigeons out to exercise and to fly the hawks or falcons get one. For almost thirty years I raised performing pigeons. I raised Rollers, Voute and Donek. These birds all have peculiarities that make them turn into a meal for the birds of prey.

Until about 15 years ago the birds of prey  would get a few birds in the winter. Then they started to catch a pigeon every time I turned them out. Then not longer after that started waiting in the trees for me to turn them out. Then they got bold enough that they started sitting on the loft and hanging on the wire on the windows. It got to the point that the birds wouldn't breed or cover their babies.

  

I understand your fascination with the birds of prey. I have watched the falcon dive on my Greek Voute from a couple of thousand feet in the sky. They could not catch them on the dive. The Voute is a much faster diver. The only problem is that they are very vulnerable when flying up. They hover and fly until they are almost flying straight up like a helicopter. I have lost thousands of dollars worth of pigeons over the last fifteen years to the birds of prey. I have heard of people using traps to catch and kill them.

There is a big story out on the Left Coast about pigeon fliers supposedly killing 15-20,000 hawks over the last few years.  It is sad when a person works hard and pays their taxes, that they can't enjoy a simple (but expensive) hobby of keeping pigeons because of the birds of prey and the laws that protect them.

The government is trying to say that the Birmingham Roller is bred to have epileptic fits and spin backwards for up to 100 foot at a time. They are not genetic misfits at all. The spinning is just a peculiarity that has been breed into them over the last 150+ years. One well know bird magazine even went as far to say that the reason that they were developed was to facilitate the death of a hawk. There is no evidence of this in the history books at all. They were developed to do what they do because some pigeons fanciers in Birmingham, England saw a bird of two do something in the air that they liked. They bred their birds through selective breeding to repeat this flipping many times over and to repeat this spin two or three times a minute. I have been to England six times. I was there for seven weeks in 2004. There are no birds of prey evidently that catches pigeons. They have a hawk that very much resembles the Red Tail Hawk. They are not fast enough on the wing to catch a pigeon. Maybe they could dive on one but probably not. The ones around here don't chase the pigeons over a half dozen times when they are juveniles. Then they quit wasting their time and go back to looking for carrion to eat.

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_pre...