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Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

This group gathers Birds subcategory members belonging to the diurnal birds of prey, a hooked-billed, sharp-taloned set of hunters traditionally split across the order Accipitriformes, the eagles, hawks, kites, harriers, buzzards and Old World vultures, and the order Falconiformes, the falcons, kestrels, hobbies and caracaras, together with the New World vultures and condors of the order Cathartiformes and the osprey and secretarybird, each the sole living member of its own family. It spans everything from the tiny Levant Sparrowhawk to the enormous Andean Condor, hunting live prey by sight and speed in most lineages while the vultures instead specialize in finding and consuming carrion, often locating a carcass from great height or, in the New World vultures' case, partly by smell. Despite the superficial resemblance shared by a hooked bill and broad soaring wings across all these groups, Old World and New World vultures are not close relatives, an example of convergent evolution toward the same scavenging lifestyle from two separate raptor lineages.

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5 1
Reproductive Mode
Oviparous (Egg-Laying) 2
Birds Of Prey (Raptors)
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African marsh harrier

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Andean Condor

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Archer's buzzard

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Bald Eagle

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Black-winged kite

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

California Condor

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Changeable hawk-eagle

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Chilean hawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Collared Sparrowhawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Common Buzzard

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Eurasian hobby

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Eurasian sparrowhawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Frances's Sparrowhawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Golden Eagle

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Griffon Vulture

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Gundlach's hawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Harpy Eagle

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Hen harrier

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

King Vulture

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Levant Sparrowhawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Moluccan goshawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Montagu's harrier

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

New Britain sparrowhawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Osprey

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Peregrine Falcon

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Philippine Eagle

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Red Kite (Milvus milvus)

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Red-tailed Hawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Red-thighed sparrowhawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Rough-legged buzzard

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Rufous-necked sparrowhawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Secretarybird

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Slaty-mantled goshawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Steller's Sea Eagle

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Turkey Vulture

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Western marsh harrier

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

White-bellied goshawk

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

White-tailed eagle

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)

Yellow-headed caracara

Birds Of Prey (Raptors)
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Taxonomic rank
WikipediaTaxonomic rank, Fundamental ranks section, rank sequence sentence, group 516387
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kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, and species
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2. Wikipedia: Bird
WikipediaBird, lead section, group 516387
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the laying of hard-shelled eggs
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