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Red-tailed Hawk Eating Breakfast

10,000 Birds

The red-tail was really going to town on the carcass, which I am relatively certain wasn’t killed by the hawk but by one of the tractors that were used to mow the landfill. It must be immensely frustrating to have food stuck on your beak when you lack hands to get it off.

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Hawk-Eagle Sweep in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Like a Northern Goshawk on steroids with fancy plumage, these birds can take small monkeys, opossums, ibis, toucans, macaws, and other medium-sized animals of the rainforest. Oh, and yes, some do also kill our local “turkey”, the Great Curassow. This curassow is great.

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Last Gasp for Sandhill Cranes—Act Now!

10,000 Birds

A hunting season on sandhill cranes vastly increases the chance that collateral kill of endangered whooping cranes will occur. Eastern flyway breeding populations appear to be maxing out their available habitat, and are subject to abundant natural limitations such as ground predation by coyotes, foxes, raccoons and opossums.

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