Bird Of Prey - Blog Posts
So we found out one of the meaning of Gavin's name. Turns out It means "Little White Falcon" 🦅👮♂️
This is the "What if Gavin Reed were a bird AU" no one ask for 👏😂
grey wagtail
character from The Wildercourt, the graphic novel I'm very slowly but very persistently working on
SO I designed this osprey pattern for a stained glass piece, but I cannot for the life of me decide on a color scheme. Thoughts, anyone?
(And by the way, if it occurs to anyone, my profile picture is indeed a stained glass piece that I designed and made myself.)
(Also an osprey is my patronus on pottermore so if I’m being entirely honest that’s what inspired this lol)
I was pretty excited to capture this video of a bird of prey (some type of hawk, I believe) taking off one early morning. Pardon the quality, but I still think it’s cool.
This little guy is an Eastern Screech Owl. Although small, he is considered fully grown. An eye injury sustained from a car collision keeps him from thriving in the wild on his own, so he will remain with the SNC as a permanent resident and educational ambassador.
The Eastern Screech Owl is considered a bird of prey. So its sharp talons and curved beak have adapted to ripping and tearing prey as opposed to the straight and long beak of something like a heron that has been adapted for fishing.
Check out our resident red-shoulder hawk. A Florida native, this bird of prey has a distinct call that is uses to signal we are encroaching on his territory. Does this call sound familiar to you?
Red-Tailed Hawks can be found all over North America!
Our resident Barred Owl did an impressive display today of how owls can turn their heads up to 270 degrees. This is due to a special adaptation on their vertebrae.
Barred Owls are native to Florida, but this one cannot be released back into the wild due to a permanent injury. He would not be able to survive in the wild on his own. Instead, he now has a happy home with dedicated care takers and sometimes makes himself visible to the public as an educational ambassador.
“Barred Owls are easiest to find when they are active at night—they’re a lot easier to hear than to see. Visit forests near water (big bottomland forest along a river is prime Barred Owl habitat) and listen carefully, paying attention for the species’ barking “Who cooks for you?” call.” - The Cornell Lab https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl/overview
This injured Burrowing Owl was brought to the nature center by a concerned Broward County resident to be rehabilitated. We were able to successfully able to release it back into the wild as good as new!
This Burrowing Owl had an interesting feature that made it a unique visitor at our hospital. Most Burrowing Owls have bright yellow eyes. This one in particular possessed a recessive gene that gave it brown eyes instead.
I met this lady hawk (haha) in Bend, Oregon at a raptor show! She and her comrades were all rescued birds of prey (and one scavenger, a turkey vulture) being rehabilitated at the High Desert Museum. We, the crowd, all sat quietly on the ground as, one at a time, birds like the barn owl, the Harris’s hawk, the turkey vulture, and the peregrine falcon flew around the air above us. The peregrine falcon was especially fantastic, as we could feel the air whoosh as she flew by! This particular girl, a red-tailed hawk, did not participate in the demonstration because she had yet more training to go through.