Raptors & Your Environment

1. Raptors & Your Environment http://www.flickr.com/photos/tshipd/199855581/

2. What’s This?

3. Are They Really Gone?

4. What’s This?

5. http://www.firstpeople.us

6. Raptor….From the Latin word“Rapare” – To seize or grasp Exceptionally Good Eye Sight Sharp Hooked Beak Four Powerful Talons on Each Foot Carnivorous – Meat Eater http://www.flickr.com/photos/digizen/1047108827/

7. How Do Raptors Help? • Control Prey Populations: Farmer’s Best Friends! • Strengthen Prey Species: The Quick & the Strong Survive • Provide Information on the Health of our Environment • Bring Beauty & Grace into the World http://www.adirondackholiday.com/falconry.html

8. Eagles, Hawks & Falcons Red-Tailed Hawk Bald Eagle Gyrfalcon • Falconiformes • 292 Species • Diurnal – Active by day Sharp- Shinned Hawk • Eagles • Falcons • Hawks • Harriers • Kites • Ospreys • Caracaras • Secretary birds • Vultures, Old World (Eastern Hemishere; Europe, Asia, and Africa) • Vultures, New World (Western Hemishere) Kestrel Prairie Falcon White- Tailed Kite Harris Hawk Red Shouldered Hawk Black Hawk Caracara http://www.art.com/

9. Golden Eagle Eagles, Hawks & FalconsFalconiformes Peregrine Falcon Goshawk • Eagles • Falcons • Hawks • Harriers • Kites • Ospreys • Caracaras • Secretary birds • Vultures, Old World (Eastern Hemishere; Europe, Asia, and Africa) • Vultures, New World (Western Hemishere) Broad- Winged Hawk Black- Shouldered Kite Swallow- Tailed Kite Merlin Osprey Short-Tailed Hawk Northern Harrier http://www.art.com Ferruginous Hawk Gyrfalcon

10. Eagles Ron Niebrugge http://www.flickr.com/photos/22771454@N04/2187887857/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/pendeho/2372279022/ Bald Eagle Back from the Endangered List! Golden Eagle

11. Owls Great Grey Spotted Barn Owl • Strigiformes • 162 Species • Nocturnal – Active at night Saw-whet Barred • Great Horned Owl • Great Grey Owl • Barred Owl • Screech Owl • Saw-whet Owl • Snowy Owl • Burrowing Owl • Boreal Owl • Long-eared Owl • Short-eared Owl • Northern Hawk Owl • Pygmy Owl • Elf Owl Screech Hawk Owl Short Eared Snowy Northern Pygmy Northern Pygmy Great Horned http://www.art.com/

12. Vultures Photos : http://www.adirondackholiday.com/everglad2.htm Turkey Vulture Nature’s Clean-Up Crew Black Vulture Moving North – Climate Change?

13. FlightSilhouettes Buteo: soaring hawk Accipiter: woodland hawk Owl Silhouette http://www.cvm.umn.edu/img/assets/16863/Identification_of_Midwest_Raptors.pdf

14. In Nature, Everything is Connected! http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Figueroa_EL/lifescience4.htm

15. How to Help Birds & Our Environment • Get involved! • Place stickers on Windows • Keep the cat indoors • Use Lead-free fishing tackle • Slow the spread of West Nile virus • Eliminate unnecessary pesticide use • Use phosphorus-free fertilizer, dishwashing & laundry detergents • Walk, bike, car pool, take the bus or trainor ride-share • Grow your own food or buy food from local farms • Grow native plants only – Stop invasive species! • Go solar! • Conserve electricity: Save a mountain top & lessen CO2 emissions • Properly dispose of toxic chemicals (i.e. latex paint) & items containing mercury • Protect native prairie • Stop junk mail: http://www.privacyrights.org • Recycle – Recycle - Recycle • Recycle newspapers & magazines - better still, read them on line • Share what you know! http://www.cvm.umn.edu/raptor/education/faqs/birdsenvironment/home.html

16. There are dinosaurs among us We don't even know they're there               We can find them in our houses                    And in the city square                           In woods and fields and oceans Lakes and streams and trees On ice floes and on mountains Or wherever they please.                      They're not as scary as T-rex Or big as ultrasaurus But some have qualities which                 May be unpleasant for us. They're certainly a terror For things they like to eat Earthworms, rabbits, rattlesnakes All hastily retreat Though some eat seeds and vegetables And fruit and leaves and grass Some eat dead meat called carrion,              Stuff we'd much rather pass. You've eaten some for dinner And seen some in the zoo                              They’ve been photographed & hunted           Some folks feed them too. What are these creatures everywhere Let's see if you can choose Who the living dinos are From clues that scientists use. Let's start with tracks left on the trail By many different creatures   Can you find the living dinosaur   By examining the features? Gary Berke John Denver: The Eagle & the Hawk Photo: http://www.thongtinnhatban.net