Peregrine Falcon Gallery

Red-shouldered Hawk - Adult bird with typical paler plumage of southern Red-shoulders - in flight

RES-870-C
Montagu's Harrier - food pass in flight
Extremadura - Spain - April
Circus pygargus
sequence 4 of 5 - The male (grey bird) has dropped the food (in this case a bird) to the female below - Whilst the female is looking after their chicks the male will catch the food and she will fly up towards him to recieve it as he drops it to her - The complete food pass lasted no more than a couple of seconds
George Reszeter
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Schreibers Long-fingered / Schreibers Long-eared / Schreibers Bat flying out of cave

CAN-2954
Red Kite - in flight
Wales, UK
Milvus milvus
Protected in the UK and increasing its range. Mainly found in Wales. Found in western Europe and extreme northern Africa. Lives in open wooded land and varied country including forests or woods mixed with farmland, pasture or heathland. Historically occurred in cities and still quite closely associated with man visiting rich feeding areas on edges of towns e.g. rubbish dumps. Essentially eats carrion and small or medium-sized mammals and birds. Nests in trees. Mainly migratory in north and central Europe
John Cancalosi
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Grey goshawk, Accipiter novaehollandiae

Grey goshawk, Accipiter novaehollandiae, and dappled brown sparrowhawk (Falco peregrinus?). Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Dumont de Sainte-Croix's Dictionary of Natural Science: Ornithology, Paris, France, 1816-1830. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Coutant, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by F.G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

© Florilegius / Mary Evans