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The purple finch is the state bird of New Hampshire. This list of birds of New Hampshire includes species documented in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and accepted by New Hampshire Rare Bird Committee (NHRBC) and New Hampshire Audubon (NHA). [1] As of February 2021, the list contained 425 species.
website, 130 acres (53 ha), environmental education center about the Merrimack River watershed, operated by New Hampshire Audubon, the State and the USFWS, located at Amoskeag Falls: Bear Brook State Park: Allenstown: Merrimack: Merrimack Valley: Over 10,000 acres (4,000 ha) extending into Deerfield, Hooksett, and Candia, small 4-H nature center
Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey and includes the osprey, hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons, and keen eyesight. Rough-legged hawk
In North America, this and the related loggerhead shrike are commonly known as butcherbirds for their habit of impaling prey on thorns or spikes. [5] A folk name from Michigan is winter butcherbird. [6] The Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation people of Old Crow, Yukon call it Tzi kwut go katshi lyi. [7] As a passerine, or song bird, it has no talons.
All three use live raptors as an avenue for promoting conservation of birds of prey and their habitat. The interpretive center draws approximately 30,000 visitors annually. Velma Morrison (1920–2013) was the second wife and widow of Harry Morrison (1885–1971), co-founder of Morrison-Knudsen Corporation.
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The placement of the New World vultures has been unclear since the early 1990s. The reason for this is the controversial systematic history of the New World vultures as they were assumed to be more related to (or a subfamily of) Ciconiidae (the storks) after Sibley and Ahlquist work on their DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late ...
The size of prey ranges from 0.001 g (3.5 × 10 −5 oz) insects to 25 g (0.88 oz) mice or reptiles. [3] Desert iguana pinned to a white rhatany shrub by a loggerhead shrike. In California. They are not true birds of prey, as they lack the large, strong talons used to catch and kill prey. [4]