bird

  • Great Grey Owl

    Great Grey Owl

    The great grey owl is a very large owl, documented as the world’s largest species of owl by length. These birds wait, listen, and watch for prey, then swoop down; they also may fly low through open areas in search of prey. They have excellent hearing, and may locate and capture prey moving beneath 2.0 ft of snow in…

  • Cooper’s Hawk

    Cooper’s Hawk

    Cooper’s hawk is a medium-sized hawk native to the North American continent and found from southern Canada to Mexico. Cooper’s hawks are known as bold and aggressive predators. This predator is known to consume vertebrate prey almost exclusively. Birds are by far the leading prey for Cooper’s hawks in most areas.

  • African Sea Eagle

    African Sea Eagle

    The African sea eagle, is a large species of eagle found throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply occur. It had a wingspan of about 7′. The African fish eagle feeds mainly on fish, which it swoops down upon from a perch in a tree, snatching the prey from the water with its…

  • Cape Vulture

    Cape Vulture

    The Cape vulture or Cape griffon, also known as “Kolbe’s vulture”, is an Old World vulture in the family Accipitridae. It is endemic to southern Africa, and lives mainly in South Africa. Mainly a carrion feeder. The Cape vulture has been declining steadily since at least the 1980s, now vulnerable. It has a wingspan of 7 ft 5 in – 8 ft 6 in.

  • Puffin

    Puffin

    The tufted puffin, also known as crested puffin, is a relatively abundant medium-sized pelagic seabird in the auk family, found throughout the North Pacific Ocean. Tufted puffins feed on a variety of fish and marine invertebrates, which they catch by diving from the surface. Tufted puffins are preyed upon by various avian raptors such as snowy owls, bald eagles and peregrine falcons, and mammals like the Arctic fox.

  • Chilean Blue Eagle

    Chilean Blue Eagle

    The Chilean Blue  Eagle is a bird of prey of the hawk and eagle family Accipitridae. It lives in open regions of South America. The food of this carnivore consists mainly of mid-sized mammals. . It may compete for carrion with the much larger Andean condor. It is found in mountainous or hilly terrain with sparse vegetation, shrubland or (in the south of its range) Nothofagus forest.

  • Sparrowhawk

    Sparrowhawk

    The Eurasian sparrowhawk, also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings.

  • Bee Hummingbird

    Bee Hummingbird

    The bee hummingbird, zunzuncito or Helena hummingbird  is a species of hummingbird, native to the island of Cuba in the Caribbean. It is the world’s smallest bird. The bee hummingbird is the smallest living bird. Females are 6.1 cm (2+3⁄8 in) long, and are slightly larger than males, which have a length of 5.5 cm (2+1⁄8 in). Like all hummingbirds, it is a swift, strong flier.

  • Black-&-White Eagle

    Black-&-White Eagle

    The black-and-white hawk-eagle is a bird of prey species in the  eagle family. It is found throughout a large part of tropical America, from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. The food of this carnivore consists of mammals, toads, squamates and in particular a wide variety of birds. Its natural habitats are lowland forests of any type, though very dense and humid as well as savanna-like semiarid habitat are not preferred.