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Sri Lanka Bay Owl (Phodilus assimilis), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, southern India

photograph by Shiva Kumar

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Night Owl  

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by Devill Photography

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Na-Na-Na-Na-Na Bat Hawk (Macheiramphus alcinus)! Named after its favorite snack, and not to be confused with your favorite superhero, this raptor mainly feeds on small bats. It has a wide but fragmented range and might be seen in parts of Africa, Southeast Asia, and Papua New Guinea. It lives in a variety of habitats, such as forests, wetlands, and savannas, where it spends most of its day roosting on a perch. But when the Sun starts to set and bats come out, this bird is quick to strike. Within about a 20-minute timespan, it can catch and gulp down as many as 11 bats!

Photo: Gary Albert, CC BY-SA 2.0, flickr

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Owl. A (not very accurate but fun) drawing I did during FWA to pass the time when someone pointed out I didn’t have any birds in my originals book.

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Look Out Below!!! by Andy Morffew A bald eagle goes into a dive! http://flic.kr/p/EznC8v

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Lammergeier aka Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Catalunia, Spain

photograph by Lars Icke

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Hawaiian Short-Eared Owl Asio flammeus sandwichensis Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi

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Leucistic Red Tail Hawk

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Crested Owl (Lophostrix cristata), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, found in Central and South America

photograph by Ignacio Yúfera

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by jennilsphotography

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Art Hobbit Unexpected Journey WETA Eagle Rescue 2013

OUT OF THE FIRE - EAGLES' RESCUE - ART PRINT The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop’s Out of the Fire – Eagles Rescue Art Print

Having eluded their Goblin captors and been lead to daylight by the Wizard, Gandalf, the Company of Thorin now find themselves perched like birds amid the boughs of dry pine trees clinging to the jagged mountain slopes. Pursued relentlessly by the pale Orc chieftain Azog, the Dwarves, Gandalf and Bilbo Baggins are surrounded by vicious, snapping Wargs who hurl themselves at the splintering trees. Amid shattering wood and the pop and twist of groaning roots the trees are toppled, one by one, forcing the Company to leap from one precarious perch to another to yet another, finally coming to dangle beyond the yawning cliff over a hungry and empty sky.

Thinking quickly, Gandalf ignites pines cones which the Dwarves send hurtling down upon their foes like fiery missiles. But this desperate act is a mere tactic of delay, for without help, whether by tooth, fall or flame, they know death awaits them all in the leering pale Orc’s grin. He has them!

Yet even in the face of this certain doom, hope swoops unlooked-for from above in the form of the Great Eagles and their lord, who, with wings beating flames in the faces of their enemies and talons flashing, send Orc and Warg alike plunging into the abyss and sweep Bilbo and his companions to safety.

The scene from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been captured by Weta Workshop concept designer Nick Keller who has been with Weta for seven years and was part of the core team of Weta designers who worked on the movie.

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Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Germany

photograph by Michael Hoffmann

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Alan Poelman

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favorite vulture or scavenger?

My favorite scavengers are actually not vultures!!!

Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, Laguna Seca Ranch, Linn, TX, USA

Photograph by Wayne Williams

Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, Texas, USA

Photograph by Denise Johnson (@denisejohnsonphotography)

Crested Caracaras (Caracara plancus) working out perch arrangement, family Falconidae, order Falconiformes, South TX, USA

photograph by Wayne Williams