Archive for the 'Species' Category
Friday, June 15th, 2007
The Star, 15 June 2007 DENVER (AP): The Denver Zoo has a newly hatched Andean condor, only the second condor to hatch at a zoo anywhere in the world over the past year, officials said. The Denver condor, a male, hatched May 13. He and his parents are the zoo’s only condors. Andean condors are [...]
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Guess what, Previously I think that the harpy eagle is the largest and strongest of all eagle… however, when I read about Haast’s eagle, definitely I am wrong… Haast’s eagle’s wingspan is about 2.6 meter for a large female and weight approximately 10-13 kg Here is the information from BBC site: Haast’s eagle, New Zealand [...]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
The Lanner Falcon (Falco biarmicus) is a large bird of prey that breeds in Africa, southeast Europe and just into Asia. It is mainly resident, but some birds disperse more widely after the breeding season. The scientific or Latin name biarmicus comes from the fact that the Lanner has a sharp raised point located on [...]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Today I feel a bit boring… not sure why… so I surf the net for some information about eagle which hopefully can make my day better. The eagle species that attract my attention at the moment is tawny eagle. Based on wikipedia, The Tawny Eagle (Aquila rapax) is a large bird of prey. It is [...]
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Recently I went to a zoo and seem some Indian black Eagle – ictinaetus malayensis, which is house together with changeable hawk eagle. Previously I didn’t know much about this species (even know I don’t know much yet) so I have search for the information about this species from the net. Based on some information [...]
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
Changeable Hawk Eagle is one of the common species of bird of prey in south East Asia. They are medium size eagle which measured about 55CM – 75 CM. Theyhave many morph and the different among the morph is their colour. Here in the photo below is three different morph of changeable hawk eagle. Here [...]
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Owl is unmistakable bird species that everyone will recognise. With their ability to hunt at night, in the dark with their big eyes and great sense of hearing. Having said that, not may people will actually realise that owl is divided into some subfamily, which each of them will have different morphology and habitat. Owls [...]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Eagle is majestic, powerful and elegant. At the moment the most powerful eagle alive is Harpy eagle… this eagle is very huge eagle with powerful talon and feet. The body of harpy eagle measures about 1 meter with the weight of the considerably 7.5 –9 kilogram. The male however is a bit small with only [...]
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Thursday, November 30th, 2006
By Cathy Benson (Source: The new castle record)Â Ultralight. Floating on the wind, this glider is powered by wings that flap. Across the valleys of Craig County, red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicenus) are soaring on the currents of air rising above the mountain valleys. Perhaps it is the envy of such beauty that brought man his [...]
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
I recall in the early days… I like to search for information about bird of prey and falconry, and I visit the jemima parry jones site, she mention that the largest bird of prey is andean condor… so I would like to post some information about this species here. Description: Andean Condors are one of [...]
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