Can someone please help me find out what this raptor is?

[Cetawin]

This is cool I just found a picture of Scowl (an owl) who was there that day at my booth...my husband's ribbon shirt is hanging on the wall behind them and a war shirt I made

http://americanwildliferefuge.org/j...=com_easygallery&act=photos&cid=267&Itemid=26

Scowl was blown from his nest during hurricane Hugo and he was raised by hand...unfortunately, he would never hunt on his own so he lives at the refuge and does educational programs with Beanca at schools and such. All my pictures from that day are either polaroids or instamatic...one day I will get around to scanning them I guess.

 

[Faverolle]

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I can pretty much guarantee you that you have several different types of raptors flying around your property. I think you are a little closer to Quabbin that I am and usually on any given day I will see 4 or 5 different raptors within eyesight of my yard. I see eagles, red tails, turkey vultures, and of course that s o b sharp shin pretty much every day.

 

[Faverolle]

Cher,
ask Ed from the dept of agri about the sharp shin flying around my yard with the snake in it's talons the other day,lol

 

[Cetawin]

Faverolle I told her to worry more about the one perched on the fence ... and get a picture of it. LOL

 

[redhen]

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I can pretty much guarantee you that you have several different types of raptors flying around your property. I think you are a little closer to Quabbin that I am and usually on any given day I will see 4 or 5 different raptors within eyesight of my yard. I see eagles, red tails, turkey vultures, and of course that s o b sharp shin pretty much every day.

lol...now i have to google a sharp shin to see whats tormenting you!

 

[redhen]

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i love owls! i hear them here..but i can never find them in the trees...

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I agree they look like vultures to me. Also one noticeable difference between a bald and golden is the beak a golden tends to have a smaller beak and the beak is darker in color. I regularly have baldies and vultures around my place. One day there were 9 around my pasture and when I went to check thinks out they were all after a (house) cat carcass.
Here is an excellent place to find this stuff.
enature.com

 

[EweSheep]

A week and half ago, our library had raptors (from a zoo) for the public to see and learn about these wonderful birds. Hubby and I took some photos of them but didn't stay for the whole thing because our DD started to have a fever and had to leave. Will post a pic of the turkey vulture (UGLY!)

We will go back there for that demostration held by our Aubo (sp) Society of Decatur. They do this every year.

One handler told us that the falcon is very hard to keep and alot of them will die by their first year. That falcon's name started with a "P" but for the life of me, I can not remember the specific kind of falcon. She was indeedly beautiful!

It was very educational!

 

[amazondoc]

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Audubon Society, named after John James Audubon. And it was probably a peregrine falcon, depending on where you live, but possibly also a Prairie falcon.

Glad you enjoyed it!

 

[EweSheep]

Thanks! It was a peregrine falcon!