Birds of Prey

The pointiest birds in the wild blue yonder finally get their due! Join us to learn all of these lethal birds killer secrets, and to discover their hidden softer sides. Some use teamwork! Some keep pets! 

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[Definition]

https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-raptor-research/volume-53/issue-4/0892-1016-53.4.419/Commentary-Defining-Raptors-and-Birds-of-Prey/10.3356/0892-1016-53.4.419.full  

[Trivia Question]

Alkyl mercury in goshawks

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10646-013-1128-z

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4312117?casa_token=3PPQWWTwiYAAAAAA%3A7giiI7DEJGZCee8kh5vBBGP51efUFHyxLFdfDGHESY1plAdhTZLY8F5sua8iP5JMNYzhZaNZRjWpC9gYSiKEeZo5sU_BxcEbUk38ZTwCEA37g9mOpHo&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

[Fact Off]

Bald eagle cyanobacteria toxin mystery

https://www.livescience.com/eagle-killing-mystery-disease-solved.html

https://www.inverse.com/science/mystery-behind-mass-bald-eagle-deaths-solved

Screech owls & threadsnakes

https://www.audubon.org/news/what-would-screech-owl-want-blind-snake

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4218201?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://landscapeipm.tamu.edu/what-is-ipm/ipm-concepts/pest-identification/good-bug-bad-bug/neither/texas-blind-snake/

http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Leptotyphlops_dulcis/

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/eastern-screech-owl

[Ask the Science Couch]

Harris’s hawks (social raptors)

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Harriss_Hawk/overview

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/harriss-hawk

https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-130/issue-3/auk.2013.120063/Reexamining-Cooperative-Hunting-in-Harriss-Hawk-Parabuteo-unicinctus--Large/10.1525/auk.2013.120063.full

[Butt One More Thing]

Anthrax in raptor cloacas

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17347404/