Birds of Prey

What are they?? A bird of prey is a bird that eats meat but a crow will eat meat if you leave it out for them does that make a crow a bird of prey, the answer is simply no because the crow wont kill it to eat it. There is a crow that is well known to farmers around the world that will attack little lambs and eat them and is considered a bird of prey because of its behavior the Grey Hooded Crow. These crows are slightly bigger than an average crow but hold the same body structure as a regular crow. When you here or think of a bird of prey you think hooded beak and huge wing span and phonomenal eye sight. Not these crows they have the same wing span as a crow and the same beak as a crow they just dont act like a crow they act like a bird of prey.

Not all birds of prey will kill to feed some wait until it has already died or dying, depending on the species determines the feeding habts. Some hunt during the day and some during the night, but they are all hunting the same thing meat. The big ones will hunt the small ones it seems the bigger they are the bigger the menu. These birds will attack other birds and eat them or feed them to their young and this sucks for the birds in the world because the biggest bird that fly’s on the planet is a bird of prey and the other birds in its habitat will become the food there is no two ways about it. The biggest bird on the planet is an ostrich you might say but in parts of Africa they still dont stand a chance with a swarm of Vultures okay it might have to be sick or dying but there was a case reported that the vultures followed the ostrich until it was exhausted and ate him then its just the way they work they dont care what they eat as long as they eat.

The Andean Condor

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The Andean Condor

The Andean Condor is the largest bird of prey in the world, when it is fully grown it can weigh over 30 pounds and have a wing span of 11 Feet. Let me tell you that you would notice one of these flying over you and it would be capable of taking your medium sized dog off the ground and never to be seen again, that is just to prove the scale and strenght of the bird it wont actually do this it prefers dead or dying prey for the easy option.