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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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43

What a magnificent bird this is!

A changeable Hawk Eagle

1 Comment
2025/01/15
04:46 UTC

14

Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk having a snack

Not the best quality, but it was so cool to see!

Mom was off to the side watching over them closely. Must’ve been one of their first hunts!

I took this video back in July, Denver CO.

4 Comments
2025/01/15
02:53 UTC

14

Juvenile Red Tail Hawk ?

This bird landed and was immediately harassed by crows.

5 Comments
2025/01/14
22:40 UTC

4

Thermal bird watching

I've been interested for a while and now wondering if I should pull the trigger on purchasing the pulsar axion compact XG35 for nature watching mainly for looking for owls and other birds of prey in my local area does anyone have any experience with this and have any advice? Thanks!

0 Comments
2025/01/14
21:22 UTC

419

I caught a yawn and a mean glare. (Red-Tailed Hawk, NY)

12 Comments
2025/01/14
18:47 UTC

85

A beautiful great gray owl! Alberta, Canada

2 Comments
2025/01/14
17:14 UTC

260

Lesser Fish Eagle!

A long search!

8 Comments
2025/01/14
09:54 UTC

69

Buzzard

Buzzard head on. Bit grunpy look

1 Comment
2025/01/14
08:48 UTC

85

High Voltage Hawk

Those talons sure do look sharp

1 Comment
2025/01/14
03:45 UTC

31

Dove..it's what's for dinner

With the heavy snow & cold the feeders are ripe for the picking

1 Comment
2025/01/14
01:20 UTC

64

Juvenile Common buzzard up close.

0 Comments
2025/01/13
23:10 UTC

81

Is this a Cooper's hawk?

Spotted in Philadelphia!

5 Comments
2025/01/13
22:43 UTC

197

Irish Barn Owl

3 Comments
2025/01/13
22:28 UTC

507

A little Kestrel Monday for you.

The cutest of all, they say. Don’t think I’d argue too much.

12 Jan Pensacola FL US

6 Comments
2025/01/13
18:11 UTC

58

Just wanted to share this, I went to Costco this weekend and saw 4 RTH and a kestrel during the one hour drive all off of the highway and this one

3 Comments
2025/01/13
16:48 UTC

876

Red Kite

Shot of a Red Kite I spotted looking over Hamerton Zoo in the UK.

14 Comments
2025/01/13
10:53 UTC

566

Red Tailed Hawk “Big Red”

3 Comments
2025/01/13
02:28 UTC

21

OM1II 300mm Pro with MC20 Teleconverter

0 Comments
2025/01/13
00:49 UTC

236

Sleepy barred owl

2 Comments
2025/01/12
17:54 UTC

41

Red-tailed hawk - Durham, NC, USA

1 Comment
2025/01/12
14:49 UTC

909

My guardians

14 Comments
2025/01/12
14:06 UTC

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