#accipitridae

[microwsoftpaint]

114 more jo. howdy

#microwsoftpaint #birds #bird art #hawk #accipitridae #anthro #lookouts #fanart #joseph #undescribed

[herpsandbirds]

Crested Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) EAT THAT TASTY HONEYS!!!, family Accipitridae, found across much of South and East Asia.

photograph by mikewang151

#honey buzzard #buzzard #hawk #raptor #pernis #bird #ornithology #accipitridae #asia #animals #nature

[alonglistofbirds]

[1591/10977] Booted eagle - Hieraaetus pennatus

Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae Subfamily: Aquilinae (booted eagles)

Photo credit: Miguel Rouco via Macaulay Library

#look at the swamp creature #birds #Booted eagle #Accipitriformes #Accipitridae #Aquilinae #Hieraaetus #birds a to z #undescribed

[webberwoof]

ive wanted to get a close up pic of a black shouldered kite for so long and it finally happened 😭😭😭 SO HAPPY

#birds #birding #ornithology #special interest #bird #bird photography #birdblr #australian birds #black shouldered kite #black-shouldered kite #accipitridae #accipitriformes

[vulture-appreciation]

Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)

© Marc Gálvez

#bearded vulture #gypaetus barbatus #accipitridae #accipitriformes #marc gálvez #birds

[snototter]

A bearded vulture or lammergier (Gypaetus barbatus) nests in Mongolia

by Tumendelger Khumbaa

#bearded vulture #lammergier #vultures #raptors #birds #gypaetus barbatus #gypaetus #accipitridae #accipitriformes #aves #chordata #wildlife: mongolia #wildlife: asia

[birdblues]

White-backed Vulture

#white backed vulture #vulture #Gyps africanus #Accipitriformes #Accipitridae #Gyps #bird #upl

[birds--daily]

day 13

today's bird is the himalayan griffon vulture!

request from @squidthemayo !!

#couldn't find any fun facts about this guy so if you have any pls tag them!! #also srry for no bird yesterday i had this one all prepped i just got sleepy #artists on tumblr #bird art #birds #ornithology #accipitriformes #accipitridae #vulture #himalayan vulture #himalayan griffon

[unrestrained-balderdash-art-blog]

Happy International Asexuality Day!!!! 💜

#asexual #international asexuality day #red kite #milvus milvus #milvus #kite #accipitridae #accipitriformes #raptor #bird of prey #bird #bird art #ace pride #ace #art #digital art #tw eyestrain #cw eyestrain #wauk wauk

[witchstone]

long-crested eagle (lophaetus occipitalis) from saturday! we watched him swoop off the post and disappear into the long grass on the side of the road, only to return empy-clawed a few seconds later

#on birds #long-crested eagle #the best thing about seeing these semi regularly is when the wind is blowing the wrong way and the crest is down in their face #accipitriformes #lophaetus #eagles #bird of prey #raptors #accipitridae #south africa #south african birds #birds #ornithology #m #diary #sorry slowly going to post updates from the saturday trip

[alphynix]

Spectember/Spectober 2023 #07: Terror Eagle

September might have ended, but guess what? I am not remotely done with this yet so we're continuing on.

Now it's Spectober.

(Also just a reminder: I am not currently taking new requests. I've got far too many existing ones that I'm still working through!)

Someone who identified themself only as "Adam" asked for "eagles evolving into terrestrial predators to pursue larger prey":

A flightless eagle occupying an apex predator niche in the same island chain as the giant herbivorous tegu, Terraetus adamii is descended from a species similar to the modern harpy eagle. It isn't substantially larger than the biggest modern eagles – standing about 1.2m tall (~4') – but it's certainly much more massive, weighing around 25kg (~55lbs).

In the absence of other large terrestrial predators its ancestors originally took up a caracara-like lifestyle, preferring hunting on foot over flying, before gradually becoming totally flightless and converging on terror birds with large heavy skulls, reduced wings, and powerful legs.

Terraetus' head is only very sparsely feathered, an adaptation for feeding inside the carcasses of large prey, which it dispatches using a combination of kicking and blows from its large hooked beak. It's usually a solitary hunter that can tackle prey up to two or three times its own weight – preferencing the juveniles of the herbivorous tegu – but during the breeding season pairs will occasionally hunt cooperatively to take down larger targets.

Despite possessing sharp beaks and talons, these weapons aren't actually used in fights between individuals of this species. Instead they bodily shove each other back and forth, battering at each other with large bony knobs that grow from the hand bones of each wing.

#spectember #spectober #spectember 2023 #speculative evolution #eagle #accipitridae #accipitriformes #bird of prey #bird #dinosaur #art #science illustration

[microwsoftpaint]

0.004 i lied to you a bit with my blog's ms paint theme. sketchbook jumpscare

#birds #bird art #cinereous vulture #eurasian black vulture #black vulture #vulture #raptor #bird of prey #accipitridae #id in alt #microwsoft23

[herpsandbirds]

Three friends share a carcass at Potrero Ranch outside of Kingsville, TX, USA.

Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus), family Cathartidae, order Accipitriformes

Harris Hawk's aka Bay-winged Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes

Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus cheriway), family Falconidae, order Falconiformes

photograph by Josefina Espinosa Salumunek  

#vulture #cathartidae #coragyps #accipitriformes #hawk #raptor #parabuteo #accipitridae #caracara #falconidae #falconiformes #bird #ornithology #anmals #nature #north america

[alonglistofbirds]

[2066/11056] Cape vulture - Gyps coprotheres

Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae

Photo credit: Albert Froneman via Macaulay Library

#featuring black-backed jackal #birds #Cape vulture #Accipitriformes #Accipitridae #Gyps #birds a to z #undescribed

[life-on-our-planet]

Scavengers are essential to ecosystems, and outside of the oceans vultures are the only known obligate scavengers. The removal of festering carcasses helps keep the environment disease-free. Vultures' stomach acid is especially corrosive, allowing them to safely digest rotten food that would be lethal to other scavengers. Smithsonian Channel

+bonus+ it can be very hard work...

#smithsonian #africa #zambia #vultures #aves #accipitridae #accipitriformes #gypaetinae #scavenger #request #why-birds

[vulture-appreciation]

Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus)

© SHYAM GHATE

#egyptian vulture #neophron percnopterus #accipitridae #accipitriformes #shyam ghate #birds