Raptors of the world

[Irap]

Gabar Goshawk, Melierax gabar - Kgalagadi TFP
Adult

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Juvie

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What a great looking bird, great photos Callie

 

[Irap]

My favourite raptor~ shooting them is like eating soup with a fork - you cannot get enough!
Bateleur, Terathopius ecaudatus, - M & F dimprphic F has white bar on wings.

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Female

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Male

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Juvie

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Juvie

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Great looking bird, spectacular shots Callie

 

[Squawk]

Making us feel low on this side of the bush, Peter!
Do you have an image of his smaller cousin? I have onle ever seen one once a long time ago in Kruger

The Ayres's Hawk-eagle (Hieraaetus ayresii)? Only a record shot - a youngster came to the garden once to upset everyone. In a bombax - one of my fav trees.

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[Oosty]

Black Winged (previously, Shouldered) Kite KNP

Very ordinary image - big crop

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[Syllog]

Australian Hobby ( Falco longipennis ) from outside Melbourne in early morning sun.

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[Callie]

Australian Hobby ( Falco longipennis ) from outside Melbourne in early morning sun.

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A beauty

 

[Oosty]

African Hawk Eagle (imm) Aquila Spilogaster Oct 2020 Kruger Park Nikon D7100 Sigma 50-500 1/3200 f8 ISO 1800

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[Squawk]

Australian Hobby ( Falco longipennis ) from outside Melbourne in early morning sun.

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Beautiful light and bird.

 

[Squawk]

African Hawk Eagle (imm) Aquila Spilogaster Oct 2020 Kruger Park Nikon D7100 Sigma 50-500 1/3200 f8 ISO 1800

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Beautiful shot. Only a tiny bit of brown left. Very nearly an adult.

 

[Jaap L]

Here is a picture from a female Sparrow Hawk (Sperwer in Dutch, Accipiter nisus ), taken with D7200/Tamrom 150-600mm G2 in my backyard of my former house in Emmeloord, The Netherlands. The prey was a Eurasian collared dove ( Streptopelia decaocto) or Turkse Tortel in Dutch.

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[CarlSpackler]

Don't think I could see a Golden Eagle on the list as of yet. Full disclosure this is a captive bird in a photography session.

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Clear cold day with on and off flurries and temps equivalent to the low minus 30's C with the windchill factored in.

 

[Squawk]

First golden on the list. Thanks. I can't even think of that sort of temperature. I get miserable under 18c so full respect for just being there.

 

[Spelzar]

Went for a walk on a dull, damp and cold afternoon and did not really expect to take a single image, almost left the camera behind, but glad not to have went I spotted this Common Buzzard!

D850 + 500PF, 1/2000, f5.6, ISO 6400, denoised.

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[Squawk]

Went for a walk on a dull, damp and cold afternoon and did not really expect to take a single image, almost left the camera behind, but glad not to have went I spotted this Common Buzzard!

D850 + 500PF, 1/2000, f5.6, ISO 6400, denoised.

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Perfect. Always carry the camera. I found a long crested eagle on my wandering today. Not such a good shot but one for the record so I was happy.

 

[Callie]

Sub adult Black-chested Snake-Eagle, Circaetus pectoralis, Kgalagadi TFP

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Juvie

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[Callie]

Now Black-winged Kite ~ Black-shouldered Kite, Elanus caeruleus, Kruger NP and Kgalagadi TFP

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Juvie, note light eye, not red

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[David Berry]

This photograph doesn't deserve a place in our forums, but the Raptors of the World thread doesn't deserve to have come to an untimely end. This is my attempt to get the thread restarted; it's worth paging through the images!

Jackal Buzzard…

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Jackal Buzzard : Buteo rufofuscus
Eswatini (a small country in southern Africa)
Date : 2005-05-16​

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