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Birds of Prey: Hawks, eagles, kites, vultures, owls, falcons, and seriemas!

Which birds are considered birds of prey?

Hawks, eagles, kites, vultures, owls, and falcons - and now introducing the seriemas!

Posting guidelines:

RULES

1. No solicitation, sales, or bartering.

This is not the place to buy, sell, or solicit goods or services of any kind. This especially applies to birds or their feathers. In the USA especially, attempts to buy or sell wild birds or their parts can easily break federal law.

2. Mark posts NSFW for pictures of injury or death

Most users in this sub are animal fans in general. The NSFW tag should be used to warn the average viewer of possibly disturbing images. Gore, severe injury, and death- especially of birds of prey- should be tagged. Use your best judgement.

3. No witch-hunts

Personal information of others is no bueno. Publicly available information such as news articles are ok to post, but inciting a witch-hunt is unacceptable.

4. Your own personal information

If a person's name, address, or phone number is discernible from a posted link, comment, or photo it will automatically be removed. This is more to protect against accidentally revealing your own identity (such as accidentally posting a facebook picture link). If you are aware and okay, it will be un-removed. Please let the mods know if that is the case and we forget to ask.

5. No memes, image macros, etc.

Note: This only applies to direct links that are posted, to prevent karma-bids. This is a small community that would be easily overrun by memes and past experience dictates most users don't want them here. Post to r/RaptorRage instead.

6. Images and videos must be your own original content, or must link to the source.

Tineye is a good resource for tracking down the original photographer or artist. Posts linking to content that is not your own will be removed unless the source is named in the title or linked in the comments.

Related subreddits:

Snoo banner artwork by user u/TinyLongwing

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40,018 Subscribers

92

Not willing to share

7 Comments
2024/10/31
13:56 UTC

27

I swear pigeons....duhhhh lol

They land right next to her ...gee maybe she doesn't see us ...lol It kills me every time!

2 Comments
2024/10/31
06:38 UTC

113

Fearless

1 Comment
2024/10/30
19:24 UTC

394

Red-tailed Hawk portrait

A bird I see fairly often, but usually perched high up on power poles. Found this one perched on a barbed wire fence on a rural country road, and I was fortunate enough (he/she?) it didn’t fly away when I stopped my vehicle. Central Arizona D500 500mm f4G 1.4x

8 Comments
2024/10/30
01:12 UTC

282

Went as a bird of prey for Halloween… what bird am I?

40 Comments
2024/10/29
23:00 UTC

197

What hawk?

Westchester County NY.

Merlin says cooper but seems too broad in the chest. /r/whatisthisbird pending for days.

6 Comments
2024/10/29
09:31 UTC

68

Help with ID?

I think this is a female kestrel. Not a very detailed picture. West of Scotland.

9 Comments
2024/10/28
10:57 UTC

67

Eagle

New Tampa this morning!!

2 Comments
2024/10/28
06:23 UTC

707

I have always been particularly fond of red tail hawks

Ever since I did a report on them in 4th grade. I took this about a year ago in a local park.

11 Comments
2024/10/28
05:05 UTC

248

This immature Red-Tailed Hawk was hunting bunnies n squirrels all day. It was chased out by 2 crows at one point.

Encinitas,CA

5 Comments
2024/10/28
01:49 UTC

42

Can anyone ID this bird ? Best photo I could get.

Encinitas, CA

2 Comments
2024/10/27
21:07 UTC

36

Eagles over NoLa

High all this is my first post but I had to show off our winter Eagles

5 Comments
2024/10/27
14:29 UTC

629

He's Back

I've shared a couple of photos about this eastern screech owl. He returned on October 26th for another "winter" of roosting in my backyard box. This is the owl's 4th year now. I am certain it is the same bird judging by its behavior.

My wife and I are thrilled about his return!

Toronto, Ontario

10 Comments
2024/10/27
12:56 UTC

70

Special Delivery!

This beauty hangs out in my yard. Often seen perched on top of signs, fence posts or the mailbox. ~ North Carolina

3 Comments
2024/10/27
02:29 UTC

1,198

My friends new hunting falcon

He's a gyr-peregrine hybrid bred for falconry.

37 Comments
2024/10/26
20:48 UTC

288

Hawk takes a field mouse on an unplanned flight

4 Comments
2024/10/26
20:13 UTC

715

I got him as he was taking off

He was sitting on the chimney watching over the yard, I took my camera out to get a picture and he took off. Luckily I snapped a picture in time.

8 Comments
2024/10/26
03:06 UTC

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