Birds of Prey and Scavenger Orders is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the bird orders whose members hunt other animals or feed on carcasses, such as the order of hawks, eagles and other diurnal birds of prey, the order of owls and the former order of New World vultures. An entry belongs here when its own cited article describes the order as birds of prey or as scavenging birds. It excludes the falcons, which an article may place in a separate order, and every order of plant eaters, insect eaters and water birds. The group lets a reader compare the day-flying hunters, the night-flying hunters and the scavengers that share the same way of making a living.
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Accipitriformes (Wikipedia)
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The Accipitriformes (; from Latin accipiter 'hawk' and formes 'having the form of') are an order of birds that includes most of the diurnal birds of prey, including hawks, eagles, vultures, kites, ospreys and secretary birds, but not falcons or seriemas.
Strigiformes (Wikipedia)
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Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes (), which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.
Wikipedia: Cathartiformes
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Cathartiformes is a former order of scavenging birds which included the New World vultures and the now-extinct Teratornithidae.
Falconiformes (Wikipedia)
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Traditionally, most other diurnal bird of prey families Cathartidae (New World vultures and condors), Sagittariidae (secretarybird), Pandionidae (ospreys), and Accipitridae (hawks) were classified in Falconiformes.
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