| Various raptor species formed the next most common group, depredating seven nests, all with nestlings. |
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| In addition, ten perching bird and eight raptor species, including Mexican spotted owls and goshawks, sometimes nest within these structures. |
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| Many of these raptor species are gregarious, which accounts for impressively large flocks of impressively large birds. |
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| Even better, we enjoyed long side-by-side views of the buteo next to a Northern Harrier, by far the most common raptor at Croton Point. |
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| Enid stays defiant in fat-heeled boots, tight minis, a raptor tee shirt and purple lipstick. |
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| The first room in the Creation Museum will show paleontologists digging up a dinosaur raptor. |
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| It was an unfamiliar raptor, lacking the obvious field marks of the usual hawks. |
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| In 1987 a raptor biologist working on Lake Umbagog observed a bald eagle with a yellow tag in its wing. |
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| And far from being a nasty raptor, the barn owl is ecologically important for natural rodent control. |
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| Could the mysterious ibisbill raptor, isolated in its remote montane habitat, in fact be the last of the true Specworld troodonts? |
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| A big raptor flew low and light over the scene under the open sky, a hen harrier, a heavy-duty killer. |
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| I'm not sure what bird it is exactly, it's definitely a raptor, and looks like a huge hawk. |
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| The raptor folds its wings, brings its talons forward, and careens toward the outstretched wings of an unsuspecting bird flying below. |
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| The crow intervened not to protect its fellow corvid but solely because a crow cannot resist the temptation to bully a small raptor. |
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| The gray bird perched on the same dead limb that the raptor and the friarbirds had visited, and it flicked its wings as it sat there. |
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| A grey heron was disturbed on its lunchtime patrol, a raptor lumbered over on heavy broad wings, a soft warm wind funnelled up the valley. |
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| He was charged with two counts of possessing a raptor and two counts of possessing a protected species. |
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| Fish's organization provides charts to help bird-watchers predict the best viewing time for various raptor species, from the golden eagle to the merlin. |
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| The Fish and Wildlife officer told him that it was illegal to possess a protected species or a raptor. |
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| This bird has a bald, red face that only a mother could love, but it boasts an incredible nine-foot wingspan and a majesty in flight that rivals any raptor. |
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| Even for those who do not understand rural life and still cannot stomach the realities of gamekeeping, it is hard to contest that a problem exists with raptor numbers. |
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| Streams and standing winter water are pretty, grouse butts are everywhere, and with three sweeps of its scimitar wings a raptor slid into the next valley. |
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| It's a survivor, a raptor that has withstood everything we humans could throw at it. |
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| The working group dealing with the proposed raptor instrument would consider the offer. |
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| If we look across the country now we see a mammoth increase in raptor population. |
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| From 1980 to 1986, the U. S. University of Minnesota raptor centre reported lead poisoning in 138 of 650 eagles treated at the centre. |
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| Ten raptor species were identified in the vicinity of the rivers and in the diversion section. |
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| Why not consider extending AEWA's Agreement Area so that the coverage of the waterbird and raptor mechanisms under CMS were similar? |
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| And the raptor actuators may be mounted in advance on the flat cable in the workshop. |
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| This raptor got tangled in the wire mesh covering fish ponds and needed 4 weeks of intensive care. |
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| In fact, some future raptor upgrades could include primes other than Lockheed leading the effort. |
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| There was no high tech foe in Iraq or Afghanistan, and over Libya, the raptor was not the right jet for the task. |
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| No creature was spared, from the largest sauropod to the smallest raptor. |
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| Banning toxic pesticides has led to a welcome return of the swift winged raptor that suffered a decline in the 1960s from being at the end of the food chain. |
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| The new raptor, or dromaeosaur, belongs to a South American dromaeosaur group known as the unenlagiines, according to Novas. |
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| Evaluation of traps and the parasitoid Muscidifurax raptor to manage house flies and stable flies on dairy farms. |
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| This is the first evidence of a flying raptor, a member of the Dromaeosaur family of dinosaurs to successfully prey on fish. |
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| Many freeliving raptor species for which secondary poisoning has not yet been documented nevertheless risk this type of poisoning as a direct consequence of their preferred feeding habits. |
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| Apprentices must be at least 14 years old and they can possess only one raptor, such as an American kestrel or a red-shouldered hawk. |
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| On a few occasions, we have seen the rare harpy eagle, the world's most massive and magnificent raptor, and the elusive jaguar. |
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| Abu Dhabi had offered a considerable sum of money to finance a Coordination Unit for the Dugong MOU, the western region of IOSEA and the possible raptor instrument. |
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| Interestingly, the holotype specimen of Talos also tells us something about theropod behavior, particularly raptor behavior. |
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| This long-winged raptor specializes in direct pursuit in the open. |
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| The Task Force assessed the science and recommended replacing fonofos with the less toxic chlorpyrifos, which has not been linked to raptor poisonings. |
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| Cases of lead poisoning in raptor and cathartid species are frequently complicated by crop stasis. |
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| Finally, I discuss the reconstructed dynamics in the light of historical irruptions of some rare raptor and owl species. |
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| The dromaeosaur or raptor, Sinornithosaurus, is a close relative to Velociraptor. |
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| The term raptor is derived from the Latin word rapere, meaning to seize or take by force. |
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| This elegant raptor is currently the subject of a heated debate between conservationists and the owners of grouse moors and their gamekeepers, many of whom continue to flout the law by killing these majestic birds of prey. |
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| In Middle English and Old French, the term faucon refers generically to several captive raptor species. |
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| When I contacted RSPB investigator Howard Jones in late December for news on the loss of Sky and Hope, he was driving north to investigate another case of raptor persecution. |
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| The osprey is the second most widely distributed raptor species, after the peregrine falcon. |
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| However, kleptoparasitism by bald eagles, where the larger raptor steals the osprey's catch, is more common than predation. |
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| Searching for nocturnal raptor nests can involve considerable effort in the field and result in the discovery of only a limited number of nests, particularly in inaccessible regions. |
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| This makes it the world's most widespread raptor, and one of the most widely found bird species. |
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| A person who kills a specially protected raptor or furbearing mammal, other than a wolf or coyote, in protection of property and is planning to keep the carcass must report the acquisition. |
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| Why not help this swift raptor in its race for survival? |
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| From an ecological perspective, raptor populations in urban areas are highly beneficial. |
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| Ohlenkamp's group spotted about 80 species of birds including the Belted Kingfisher, a fish-diving raptor with a black mohawklike crown and a belt around his paunch. |
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| It is relatively long winged and long tailed, having the longest wing and tail relative to its body size of any raptor occurring in North America. |
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| In fact, with feral pigeons existing in almost every city in the world, they may form the majority of prey for several raptor species that live in urban areas. |
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