Some pics of raptors I took in Cordoba, Argentina.

Cool.....here's a question: Are all raptors birds of prey, and vice versa?

UUUOOOHHH Excelent pictures of lechuzas, caranchos, chimangos and jotes, I asume that You use one of those big profesional reflex camera with long teleobjetive, what brand? I am just a simple amateur. Thanks for sharing . Guille

@Norton
Birds of Prey - Common English Terminology
Raptor - Naturalist Terminology
Both are one and the same.

@Guille,
Glad you approved pics of birds from your province. All of my equipment is Canon (cameras and lenses)

Glad I wandered in here! Thanks for the great pics.

great pics, I'd guess they are:

pic 1 - Burrowing Owl or similar
pic 2 - Black Vulture
pic 3 - Roadside Hawk or similar
pic 4 - some type of Kite (Grey? Snail?)
pic 5 - Swainson's Hawk (migrated from US)
pics 6 - 8 - Caracara
pic 9 - immature Caracara?

great pics...

Regards,
Craig Nolan

@Craig
Glad you enjoyed the pics...looks like you know your birds quite well.
1,2,6,7,8,9 affirmative.
3,4 I will need to check on those.
5 may be a native Long-winged Harrier. He was flying really high and his wing shape was very very different from anything I had seen in the neighborhood. I wish I had taken more pics of him.

Collector, you could very well be correct; we've got Northern Harriers here in Cal, used to be known as Marsh Hawks... your pic looks like a hawk from the Buteo family/genus, with the broader wings more for soaring and circling, as opposed to the Harriers' we've got... but again, I'm just a watcher and not an expert..

Best Regards,
Craig Nolan

Maybe I'm wrong about one or two but my guess is:

1)Lechuza de campo ó lechuza de las vizcacheras (Athene cunicularia)

2)Cuervo de cabeza negra (Coragyps atratus)

3)Chimango (Milvago chimango)

4)Chimango again.

5)Young aguila mora (Geranoaetus melanoleucus)

6, 7, 8 and 9) Carancho. Also known in some other countries as Caracara (Polyborus. plancus)

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Lorenzo,

I'll have to brush up on my spanish..

I saw several Caracara's in Costa Rica, in fact they seemed to be extremely common... I believe they're most closely related to falcons (?), but again I'm not positive of that...at any rate they're a unique bird.

Best Regards,
Craig Nolan

Craig,

They are a pest down here !!
They are terrible during the lamb season, while the sheeps are droping their lambs they walked behind killing the lamb

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Beatiful bird to shoot with a 223 or something like that as after some are shot down they become extremly spooky and don't allow you to get closer than several hundreds yards

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Lorenzo,

"Beatiful bird to shoot with a 223 or something like that as after some are shot down they become extremly spooky and don't allow you to get closer than several hundreds yards"

you must be from Alberta!

Best Regards,
Craig

HERE ,MOST FARMERS SHOOT THE CARANCHOS WITH 22LR,22 WINCH MAG AND 223 BECAUSE THEY DAMAGE GFARM AND GAME ANIMALS ,BESIDES THAT THEY ARE A PEST RIGTH NOW.

The Caracara is the national "eagle" of Mexico, not well known as such though.

We occasionally see Caracara when visiting the Hill Country of Texas. Don't know if or how much further North they get