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.