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Argentina - Part 3 (Raptors of Cordoba - Pics)
08 February 2010, 00:05
NortonCool.....here's a question: Are all raptors birds of prey, and vice versa?
08 February 2010, 00:26
Guillermo AmestoyUUUOOOHHH
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
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08 February 2010, 19:09
collector@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)
12 February 2010, 06:18
NakihunterGlad I wandered in here! Thanks for the great pics.
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17 February 2010, 01:38
Craig Nolangreat 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
Best Regards,
Craig Nolan
18 February 2010, 07:55
collector@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.
25 February 2010, 00:21
Craig NolanCollector, 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
Best Regards,
Craig Nolan
25 February 2010, 03:50
LorenzoMaybe I'm wrong about one or two but my guess is:
1)Lechuza de campo รณ 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)
L
26 February 2010, 00:31
Craig NolanLorenzo,
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
Best Regards,
Craig Nolan
26 February 2010, 00:43
LorenzoCraig,
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
L
26 February 2010, 00:44
LorenzoBeatiful 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
L
26 February 2010, 22:47
Craig NolanLorenzo,
"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
Best Regards,
Craig Nolan
22 September 2010, 23:09
juanpozziHERE ,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.
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24 September 2010, 05:44
D99The Caracara is the national "eagle" of Mexico, not well known as such though.
25 September 2010, 01:53
SGraves155We occasionally see Caracara when visiting the Hill Country of Texas. Don't know if or how much further North they get