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Raptors & Your Environment http://www.flickr.com/photos/tshipd/199855581/ What’s This? Are They Really Gone? What’s This? http://www.firstpeople.us Raptor…. From the Latin word “Rapare” – To seize or grasp http://www.flickr.com/photos/digizen/1047108827/ 1. Exceptionally Good Eye Sight 2. Sharp Hooked Beak 3. Four Powerful Talons on Each Foot 4. Carnivorous – Meat Eater How Do Raptors Help? • • • • Control Prey Populations: Farmer’s Best Friends! Strengthen Prey Species: The Quick & the Strong Survive Provide Information on the Health of our Environment Bring Beauty & Grace into the World http://www.adirondackholiday.com/falconry.html Red-Tailed Hawk Bald Eagle Gyrfalcon Eagles, Hawks & Falcons Falconiformes 292 Species Diurnal – Active by day SharpShinned Hawk Kestrel Prairie Falcon WhiteTailed Kite Harris Hawk Red Shouldered Hawk Black Hawk Caracara Eagles Falcons Hawks Harriers Kites Ospreys Caracaras Secretary birds Vultures, Old World (Eastern Hemishere; Europe, Asia, and Africa) Vultures, New World (Western Hemishere) http://www.art.com/ Golden Eagle Eagles, Hawks & Falcons Peregrine Falcon Goshawk BroadWinged Hawk BlackShouldered Kite SwallowTailed Kite Merlin Osprey Short-Tailed Hawk Ferruginous Hawk Gyrfalcon Northern Harrier Falconiformes Eagles Falcons Hawks Harriers Kites Ospreys Caracaras Secretary birds Vultures, Old World (Eastern Hemishere; Europe, Asia, and Africa) Vultures, New World (Western Hemishere) http://www.art.com Eagles Ron Niebrugge http://www.flickr.com/photos/22771454@N04/2187887857/ Bald Eagle Back from the Endangered List! http://www.flickr.com/photos/pendeho/2372279022/ Golden Eagle Great Grey Spotted Owls Barn Owl Saw-whet Screech Hawk Owl Short Eared Northern Pygmy Snowy http://www.art.com/ Northern Pygmy Strigiformes 162 Species Nocturnal – Active at night 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 Great Horned Barred Vultures Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Nature’s Clean-Up Crew Moving North – Climate Change? Photos : http://www.adirondackholiday.com/everglad2.htm Flight Silhouettes Buteo: soaring hawk Accipiter: woodland hawk Owl Silhouette http://www.cvm.umn.edu/img/assets/16863/Identif ication_of_Midwest_Raptors.pdf In Nature, Everything is Connected! http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Figuero a_EL/lifescience4.htm 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/birdsenvironment/home.html 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. You've eaten some for dinner And seen some in the zoo They’ve 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? They're certainly a terror For things they like to eat Earthworms, rabbits, rattlesnakes All hastily retreat Gary Berke Though some eat seeds and vegetables And fruit and leaves and grass Some eat dead meat called carrion, Stuff we'd much rather pass. John Denver: The Eagle & the Hawk Photo: http://www.thongtinnhatban.net