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Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey, which includes 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. Sixteen species have been recorded in Iowa. White-tailed kite, Elanus leucurus (A)
The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [4] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States, American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.
Although the term "bird of prey" could theoretically be taken to include all birds that actively hunt and eat other animals, [4] ornithologists typically use the narrower definition followed in this page, [5] excluding many piscivorous predators such as storks, cranes, herons, gulls, skuas, penguins, and kingfishers, as well as many primarily ...
Look out for birds across Iowa on Thursday night. Hundreds of thousands of birds will fly through the state to head south for the winter.
The primary predators of this species are diurnal birds of prey, such as falcons and hawks. During nesting, corvids, grackles, housecats, or rat snakes will prey on their eggs. [38] Cowbirds rarely parasitize mourning dove nests. Mourning doves reject slightly under a third of cowbird eggs in such nests, and the mourning dove's vegetarian diet ...
Spring is here and some tiny, feathered friends will soon be returning to Iowa. Hummingbirds, the birds who get their name from the sound their fast wings make, can expect to be spotted for ...
The live webcam was set up in 2007 by the Raptor Resource Project (RRP), [13] Xcel Energy and Dairyland Power, [14] and was upgraded to live-streaming by Ustream in 2011. [2] The Decorah Eagles' Ustream channel features in real time the Decorah, Iowa bald eagle family as they build and repair their nests, mate and lay eggs, struggle with bad weather and predators, and protect and care for ...
Fifty thousand birds are being destroyed at a Buena Vista turkey facility to contain an episode of bird flu Bird flu reemerges in Iowa, hitting Buena Vista County facility with 50,000 turkeys Skip ...