This project aims to trace the migration and wintering sites of the small population of honey buzzards which live in the Highlands. |
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In particular I am very concerned about the risk posed by the illegal use of poison to birds such as red kites, buzzards and hen harriers. |
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The couple collected breeds of birds from every continent, including pheasants, herons, ibis, kestrels and buzzards. |
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We didn't catch that fish, or any fish, but we had a great day with kingfishers, peregrine falcons and buzzards for company. |
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Other birds include a huge American bald eagle called Liberty, buzzards, Harris hawks, vultures, laughing kookaburras and a pelican. |
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He insists this perception is wrong and that the main threat to curlews and plovers comes not from buzzards but habitat loss. |
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The herons and buzzards have left for places more congenial to watching and listening for desperate scrambling through snow. |
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En route she encounters buzzards, a peregrine and high brown fritillary butterflies, otters and kingfishers. |
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Between March and September the rare osprey visits and there are duck, geese, swans, grouse, herons and buzzards. |
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Some were seen shooting at honey buzzards from every imaginable place, the police source said. |
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I seem to recall a pair of turkey buzzards who occasionally appeared in early Warner Bros cartoons. |
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According to one of many legends, Wickenburg named the Vulture Mine after the buzzards circling over his head as he struck pay dirt. |
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We sojourned for days across the Great Eastern Range, buzzards flying over-head. |
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Research elsewhere in the UK has confirmed that adverse weather is not a dominant factor in the success of breeding honey buzzards. |
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Finally, the honey buzzards, young griffon vultures and hobbies mark the end of the spring or prenuptial migration, around the end of June. |
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No life stirred except where, against the sky, buzzards planed and glided on motionless wings. |
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Done, he dragged brush over it so buzzards circling high above the manzanita-covered hills wouldn't eat of it and die. |
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In the barn there are nesting pairs of barn owls, and sparrow hawks, while buzzards and peregrine falcons are regular visitors to the woods. |
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With plenty of smaller birds and rabbits to prey on, all around the island kestrels hover, buzzards glide and peregrine falcons swoop. |
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After owls, U.K. government figures identify kestrels, common buzzards, and peregrine falcons as other raptors most likely to end up as roadkill. |
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In the woods I heard both green and great spotted woodpecker whilst overhead a pair of buzzards soared in a spectacular display flight. |
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen. |
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Large amounts of rubbish in the streets and round buildings attracted scavenging birds such as gulls, buzzards, ravens and red kites when things were quiet. |
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At night you can hear the call of the Cape Eagle owl and during the day you might see bokmakieries, sunbirds, sugar birds, steppe buzzards, heron and many many more. |
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The location of the nest is being kept secret, as honey buzzards are a prime target for egg collectors and are a species of conservation concern throughout Europe. |
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Grouse, ravens and buzzards may be seen, and red deer are common. |
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Boasting buzzards, merlins, kestrels, peregrines, and ospreys, the county has ten of a total UK species of 15-making it one of the nation's key habitats. |
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Carrion is laid out to attract the feathered carnivores, and regular diners include whitenecked ravens, lanner falcons, jackal buzzards, black eagles and cape vultures. |
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As well as grouse watching, Dan and his colleagues also give informal tours around the reserve for young ornithologists keen to spot merlins, buzzards and ospreys. |
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I asked, watching buzzards, white-backed vultures, and tawny eagles corkscrew skyward on thermals. |
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It features free-flying displays and an opportunity for people to see at close hand some 30 different birds of prey, including eagles, buzzards and falcons. |
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Raptors, buzzards among them, swirled, checked and glided above Ivy Scar, then eased over the valley to hunt and scavenge the stone-walled fields. |
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Species such as buzzards, peregrine falcons, northern wheatears, ravens, gulls, auks, Manx shearwaters and guillemots all call the island home. |
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These include many birds of prey such as vultures, eagles, and buzzards, but also storks. |
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They are seen less frequently where foxes are abundant or where there are many buzzards. |
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A family of birds of prey which includes hawks, buzzards, eagles, kites and harriers. |
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In the open country favoured on the wintering grounds, steppe buzzards are often seen perched on roadside telephone poles. |
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When police raided his home they found African hawk eagles, jackal buzzards, goshawks and American kestrels. |
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It is also the home of red kites, buzzards, dippers, peregrine falcons and ravens, with seasonal visits from ring ouzels and redstarts. |
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What's better than walking through a forest with buzzards, orioles, boomslangs, baboons, vervets, duikers and puff adders? |
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Rare species such as marsh harriers, ravens, buzzards, storks and stone curlews had also shown increases, probably due to conservation efforts. |
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Among the ever-increasing numbers observed were the velvet scoter, red kite, kingfishers, cuckoos, buzzards and the spotted redshank. |
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They are ugly looking buzzards, but remarkable for their 11-foot wingspan. |
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Migrating marsh harriers and honey buzzards stop there en route from Europe to Africa each September. |
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Honey buzzards normally avoid long stretches of sea and experts hope the chick is resting on something floating. |
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Visitors can see house sparrows, skylarks, hovering kestrels and soaring buzzards and enjoy a day out walking and relaxing. |
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There are also ambitious plans to tag and track via satellite three honey buzzards from Africa which will be making a summer stop-off in Wales en route to Guinea, West Africa. |
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Satellite tracking of day migrating raptors such as ospreys and honey buzzards has shown that older individuals are better at making corrections for wind drift. |
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Birds illegally killed in this spring hunt according to BirdLife Malta include honey buzzards, marsh harriers, pallid harriers, purple herons and green shanks. |
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The Welsh Kite Trust is now switching the focus of its conservation work towards other raptors, such as honey buzzards, peregrines, merlins, hobbies and kestrels. |
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Rare honey buzzards and goshawks can be viewed in some of our other nature reserves and forest parks, while pergrine falcons can be seen even in the centre of Cardiff. |
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They fear rare birds including buzzards, hen harriers, golden plovers and curlews could be at serious risk if wind farms continue to be built in nesting areas. |
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All this driving makes us as peckish as the buzzards we see perched on the roadside creosote bushes, so, turning left on Route 62, we stop for lunch at the Country Kitchen. |
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Their 420-acre arable farm has become a haven for brown hares and birds, including skylarks, tree sparrows, buzzards, barn owls and flocks of goldfinches. |
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In 2004, Perthshire gamekeeper David Stewart was fined pounds 1,200 for possessing the poison chloralose, often used to kill golden eagles, kestrels and buzzards. |
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The broad-leafed areas provide homes for woodpeckers, nuthatches, whitethroats and jays while the rare heath-land areas are ideal for the nightjar, woodlarks and buzzards. |
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Rhys, a warehouseman, said the pair had already spotted cuckoos, stonechats and whinchats, when they saw a large bird being mobbed by buzzards and a peregrine. |
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There are many birds of prey such as lesser kestrel and buzzards. |
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A unique viewing scheme offering people the chance to see honey buzzards will open t o the public at the Afan Forest Park visitor centre, near Port Talbot, tomorrow. |
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