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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.

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23

Great horned owl?

Located in Central Arizona. In my parent’s tree to be exact.

2 Comments
2024/09/12
22:07 UTC

48

What kind of bird is this?

Im in Austin, Texas if location helps identify. 😁

2 Comments
2024/09/12
18:13 UTC

12

Abandoned baby osprey

Hi all!

Hopefully this belongs here and sorry for formatting.

I've been on a job site for months where I have watched an osprey family have a baby and raise it. Yesterday when I was driving home, about .25 miles crows fly from the nest I saw a large bird that was unalive on the side of the road. I was not able to stop to see if it was the parent osprey, but due to its size I would suspect so.

Now I'm on the job site again and I can see the baby and I've heard it cry out, but not nearly as much as yesterday and I haven't seen a parent return to the nest. Should I be concerned? Is there something I should do or someone I should call? Their nest is up on a wireless tower so I imagine it would be difficult to even rescue baby.

I guess I'm just looking for advice on how I can help. I'm so distraught watching this baby keep waiting for a parent and no one is coming and I suspect they never will.

5 Comments
2024/09/12
15:45 UTC

65

Young hawk, Leeds AL

We saw a hawk fledgling on a low branch a week ago, with parents buzzing around overhead! It was really fun to watch and listen too. Leeds, AL

4 Comments
2024/09/12
15:01 UTC

46

Hawk party!

I was @ JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, AZ and as I entered I saw just 1 what I believe are Harris Hawks. When I was leaving I looked up at the same spot and I was so happy to see 3! Such a cool thing to be able to see and hear them talking to one another.

2 Comments
2024/09/12
04:56 UTC

61

2 Red-shouldered Hawks (Homewood, AL)

3 Comments
2024/09/12
02:08 UTC

811

Red-tailed hawk came to visit this morning.

5 Comments
2024/09/12
00:44 UTC

383

Beautiful Broad Winged Hawk (VT, USA)

14 Comments
2024/09/11
16:52 UTC

181

Merlin perched on the river’s edge. NE Wisconsin

7 Comments
2024/09/11
15:05 UTC

140

RSH hanging out

Usually I see these guys in power lines so I’m always a little extra excited to see them perched up in nature.

RSH 11 Sept Pensacola FL US

3 Comments
2024/09/11
13:13 UTC

224

The Dark Knight

4 Comments
2024/09/10
22:37 UTC

176

What bird is this? Buddy took the picture in Kansas

5 Comments
2024/09/10
13:21 UTC

575

Peek a boo

12 Comments
2024/09/10
01:01 UTC

327

Bald Eagle I spotted as I was driving.

5 Comments
2024/09/09
22:01 UTC

156

Swainson's Hawk

New neighbor

5 Comments
2024/09/09
02:31 UTC

453

Same lil guy...I can't get over how lil he was!!! I see hawks on a daily basis... but he was the one of the smallest lil ones😍

35 Comments
2024/09/08
12:28 UTC

224

Hawk vs Mantis

Screenshot from a tik tok, credit to OP is there if you click on the photo. No knowledge of location, just absoutley hilarious

14 Comments
2024/09/07
23:11 UTC

121

Can anyone tell what kind of hawk this is even with the potato quality?

I apologize for the poor photo quality.

17 Comments
2024/09/07
22:30 UTC

528

A Magnificent Bald Eagle

5 Comments
2024/09/07
15:26 UTC

59

An eagle eating.

This was about 150 yds away.

1 Comment
2024/09/07
02:00 UTC

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