Raptors

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Raptors Your Environment
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Whats This?
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Are They Really Gone?
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Whats This?
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http//www.firstpeople.us
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Raptor.From the Latin wordRapare To seize
or grasp
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1. Exceptionally Good Eye Sight
2. Sharp Hooked Beak
3. Four Powerful Talons on Each Foot
4. Carnivorous Meat Eater

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How Do Raptors Help?

• Control Prey Populations Farmers Best Friends!
• Strengthen Prey Species The Quick the Strong
  Survive
• Provide Information on the Health of our
  Environment
• Bring Beauty Grace into the World

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Eagles, Hawks Falcons
Red-Tailed Hawk
Bald Eagle
Gyrfalcon

• Falconiformes
• 292 Species
• Diurnal Active by day

• Eagles
• Falcons
• Hawks
• Harriers
• Kites
• Ospreys
• Caracaras
• Secretary birds
• Vultures, Old World (Eastern Hemishere Europe,
  Asia, and Africa)
• Vultures, New World (Western Hemishere)

Sharp- Shinned Hawk
Kestrel
Prairie Falcon
White- Tailed Kite
Harris Hawk
Red Shouldered Hawk
Black Hawk
Caracara
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Golden Eagle
Eagles, Hawks FalconsFalconiformes
Peregrine Falcon
Goshawk

• Eagles
• Falcons
• Hawks
• Harriers
• Kites
• Ospreys
• Caracaras
• Secretary birds
• Vultures, Old World (Eastern Hemishere Europe,
  Asia, and Africa)
• Vultures, New World (Western Hemishere)

Broad- Winged Hawk
Black- Shouldered Kite
Swallow- Tailed Kite
Merlin
Osprey
Short-Tailed Hawk
Northern Harrier
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Ferruginous Hawk
Gyrfalcon
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Eagles
Ron Niebrugge http//www.flickr.com/photos/227714
54_at_N04/2187887857/
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Bald Eagle Back from the Endangered List!
Golden Eagle
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Owls
Great Grey
Spotted
Barn Owl

• Strigiformes
• 162 Species
• Nocturnal Active at night

Saw-whet
Barred

• Great Horned Owl
• Great Grey Owl
• Barred Owl
• Screech Owl
• Saw-whet Owl
• Snowy Owl
• Burrowing Owl
• Boreal Owl
• Long-eared Owl
• Short-eared Owl
• Northern Hawk Owl
• Pygmy Owl
• Elf Owl

Screech
Hawk Owl
Short Eared
Snowy
Northern Pygmy
Northern Pygmy
Great Horned
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Vultures
Turkey Vulture Natures Clean-Up Crew
Black Vulture Moving North Climate Change?

• Photos http//www.adirondackholiday.com/everglad
  2.htm

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FlightSilhouettes
Buteo soaring hawk Accipiter woodland hawk
Owl Silhouette
http//www.cvm.umn.edu/img/assets/16863/Identifica
tion_of_Midwest_Raptors.pdf
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In Nature, Everything is Connected!
http//www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Figueroa_EL/lifescience
4.htm
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How to Help Birds Our Environment

• Get involved!
• Place stickers on Windows
• Keep the cat indoors
• Use Lead-free fishing tackle
• Slow the spread of West Nile virus
• Eliminate unnecessary pesticide use
• Use phosphorus-free fertilizer, dishwashing
  laundry detergents
• Walk, bike, car pool, take the bus or trainor
  ride-share
• Grow your own food or buy food from local farms
• Grow native plants only Stop invasive species!
• Go solar!
• Conserve electricity Save a mountain top
  lessen CO2 emissions
• Properly dispose of toxic chemicals (i.e. latex
  paint) items containing mercury
• Protect native prairie
• Stop junk mail http//www.privacyrights.org
• Recycle Recycle - Recycle
• Recycle newspapers magazines - better still,
  read them on line
• Share what you know!

http//www.cvm.umn.edu/raptor/education/faqs/birds
environment/home.html
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There are dinosaurs among us We don't even know
they're there               We can find them in
our houses                    And in the city
square                             In woods and
fields and oceans Lakes and streams and trees On
ice floes and on mountains Or wherever they
please.                        They're not as
scary as T-rex Or big as ultrasaurus But some
have qualities which                 May be
unpleasant for us.   They're certainly a
terror For things they like to eat Earthworms,
rabbits, rattlesnakes All hastily
retreat   Though some eat seeds and vegetables
And fruit and leaves and grass Some eat dead
meat called carrion,              Stuff we'd
much rather pass.
You've eaten some for dinner And seen some in the
zoo                              Theyve been
photographed hunted           Some folks feed
them too.   What are these creatures everywhere
Let's see if you can choose Who the living dinos
are From clues that scientists use.   Let's start
with tracks left on the trail By many different
creatures   Can you find the living dinosaur   By
examining the features?
Gary Berke
John Denver The Eagle the Hawk
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