Australian Birds of Prey
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FAMILY : Birds of Prey
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Brown Goshawk
(Accipiter fasciatus) |
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The Brown Goshawk is a medium sized bird of prey with grey head and grey back, and reddish brown barred front. The legs and toes are yellow. Juveniles have brown backs, brown and white streaked head, and brown and white barred underside. The Brown... Click to continue> |
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Collared Sparrowhawk
(Accipiter cirrocephalus) |
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The Collared Sparrowhawk is a bird of prey with grey back and finely barred chest of reddish brown and white feathers. The sides of the neck are reddish brown It has bright yellow eyes The legs are yellow with long toes. Juvenile birds have brown... Click to continue> |
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Grey Goshawk
(Accipiter novaehollandiae) |
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The Grey Goshawk is a medium sized hawk. There are two colour forms. The grey form has pale grey back and head and pale grey and white barring on underside. Thereis also an all white form known as the White Goshawk. Both forms have reddish eyes and... Click to continue> |
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Wedge-tailed Eagle
(Aquila audax) |
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The Wedge-tailed Eagle is a large brown eagle with long-feathered legs and a diamond or wedge shaped tail. The tail shape is prominent when seen soaring. It flies with slow powerful wing beats, and soars and circles at great heights. Click to continue> |
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Crested Hawk
(Aviceda subcristata) |
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The Crested Kite is a medium-sized, long-tailed hawk with a prominent crest. The only Australian hawk with a crest. Click to continue> |
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Spotted Harrier
(Circus assimilis) |
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The Spotted Harrier is blue grey above with scalloped lighter markings, the underside is bright reddish brown with small white spots. The tail is barred black and grey. The head has a reddish brown face disc. The trailing edge of the wings and wing... Click to continue> |
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Swamp Harrier
(Circus approximans) |
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The Swamp Harrier has brown back and wings. The male is greyer brown and has pale belly and chest streaked with brown, the female has reddish brown chest and belly. The tail is long and broad with dark bars and paler in the male. It has an... Click to continue> |
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Black-shouldered Kite
(Elanus axillaris) |
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The Black-shouldered Kite is pale grey above, with a white head, underside and tail. The shoulders are black., and the wings have black tips. It has a red eye and yellow nostrils, legs and feet. It is often seen hovering with feet hanging down. Click to continue> |
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Australian Hobby
(Falco longipennis) |
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The Australian Hobby is smaller than the related Peregrine Falcon. It is dark slate-blue above with dark head. It has white or creamy brown forehead, throat and side of the neck. The underside is rufous brown. The bill is blue-grey with black tip.... Click to continue> |
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Black Falcon
(Falco subniger) |
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The Black Falcon is black or dark brown falcon with paler throat. Some birds have white speckles on the breast and under the wings. It has broad wings and fairly long tail with curved tip. the eye is dark brown and beak has a black tip. Female birds... Click to continue> |
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Brown Falcon
(Falco berigora) |
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The Brown Falcon is variable in colour and can be dark brown or lighter brown above, with pale brown or cream underside. The side of the face is lighter brown or creamy brown with a small vertical dark streak below the eye, and another small dark... Click to continue> |
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Nankeen Kestrel
(Falco cenchroides) |
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The Nankeen Kestrel is a small hawk. The upper parts are mostly rufous, with some dark streaking. The wings are tipped with black. The underside are pale buff, streaked with black Click to continue> |
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Peregrine Falcon
(Falco peregrinus) |
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The Peregrine Falcon is a well-known bird of prey. It is slate-blue above with dark mottling, and creamy buff below with fine black bars. The upper chest is whitish with no dark bars. The top of the head and cheeks is very dark.. The bill is grey... Click to continue> |
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White-bellied Sea-Eagle
(Haliaeetus leucogaster) |
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The White-breasted Sea-Eagle is a large white eagle with grey-brown wings, White and grey underside, with wedge-shaped white tail seen in flight. Immatures are dark brown streaked and spotted light brown. Click to continue> |
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Brahminy Kite
(Haliastur indus) |
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The Brahminy Kite is a medium sized bird of prey. It is reddish brown with white head and breast. The tail is short with white tip. The eye is dark and the bill is yellow and hooked. Often soaring over beaches, estuaries and mudflats. Click to continue> |
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Whistling Kite
(Haliastur sphenurus) |
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The Whistling Kite is a medium sized bird of prey. It has light brown head and underparts, with pale streaks, and dark sandy-brown wings with paler undersides Click to continue> |
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Black-breasted Kite
(Hamirostra melanosternon) |
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The Black-breasted Kite is a large dark bird with short, square-tipped tail. This bird is unusual in that it uses stones as a tool to crack Emu eggs. Click to continue> |
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Little Eagle
(Hieraaetus morphnoides) |
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Body one of two patterns: light brown with white underparts, or dark brown with light brown underparts. Wings with a wide white 'm' marking underneath when in flight. Tail with square tip. Legs covered by feathers. Body up to 55 cm... Click to continue> |
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Square-tailed Kite
(Lophoictinia isura) |
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Black Kite
(Milvus migrans) |
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A dark brown medium-sized bird of prey that from a distance appears almost black. It has a pale brown bar across its wings and a pale brown face. In flight it has long slightly drooped wing tips and a forked to triangular tail that it twists and... Click to continue> |
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Osprey
(Pandion haliaetus) |
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The Osprey has a brown back with white head and belly. The only Australian bird of prey with dark line through the eye. the young have streaking across the chest. Click to continue> |
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