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Raptors & Your Environment
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What’s This?
Are They Really Gone?
What’s This?
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Raptor….
From the Latin word
“Rapare” – 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
How Do Raptors Help?
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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
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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)
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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)
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Eagles
Ron Niebrugge
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Bald Eagle
Back from the Endangered List!
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Golden Eagle
Great Grey
Spotted
Saw-whet
Screech
Hawk Owl
Short Eared
Northern Pygmy
Snowy
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Northern Pygmy
Owls
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?
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Flight
Silhouettes
Buteo: soaring hawk
Accipiter: woodland hawk
Owl Silhouette
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ication_of_Midwest_Raptors.pdf
In Nature,
Everything is
Connected!
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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!
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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.
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
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