Eagles - Friends of the PKK

Eagles on the Qandil Mountains of Northern Iraq seem to befriend PKK's Kurdish fighters quite easily.

Source: Liveleak.Com (Kurdish women fighters - Inside the PKK)

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75f_1418719690

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HUNTING WITH A GOLDEN EAGLE

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Mont-Blanc viewed from the back of the largest European eagle

A tour of London - on the back of an Eagle

A tour of London - from the back of an eagle

An eagle with a camera attached has flown across London and offered a new perspective on some of the capital's best-known landmarks.

-bbc.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR-ay6KZMQ

The Brahminy Kite - India

The Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus) is identified with Garuda, the mythical mount of Vishnu. It hunts for fish and other prey near the coasts and around inland wetlands. In flight the rounded tail and plumage of adults is distinctive.

"Brahminy Kite" by Challiyil Eswaramangalath Vipin from Chalakudy, India - Brahmini Kite series # 3.

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The Himalayan Golden Eagle

Himalayan eagle inhabits the biotopes between 3000 and 5500m, but some reports its rare descent to lower levels at 1850m due to food searching operation.  It affects rugged, desolate high mountain country with crags and precipices and spores stunted vegetation.  Its flight is directly assisted by powerful wing beat coupled with long glides.

Food habits reveal that this predatory bird prefers game birds and mammals.  The avian food items identified diet of golden eagle is: pigeon, chukor, snowcock, monal and other pheasants.  Nest young feed predominantly on crows, chiefly Corvus maerorhyuchos.  Kinlock (1892) implicated golden eagle as predators of the Tibetan argali lambs and Herptnes et al. (1966) reports of predation of young ibex.  The other mammals killed by these predatory birds are: marmots, hares, pine martins, and fawn of musk deer and ghorals.

Occasionally, new born lambs of domestic sheep and full grown tahr are also victims.  The latter is attacked on the edge of a cliff and hurtled to its death below (Salim Ali & Riplay, 1983).

This graceful eagle is the largest of all the Himalayan birds.  It is large and powerful and readily distinguished from all other birds of prey.  In soaring overhead the broad wings are held wide open in a V slightly above the line of the back, as in king vulture and black eagle.  The feathers of the hind crown, rape and hind neck are lancaolate, blackish-brown and tipped or edged golden or tawny Rufus.  The thighs, upper and under tail coverts and shoulder of the wings are distinctly rough-brown.

The wings are mottled with buff-white.  The tail has irregular bars at the base but the tip is a darker.  The immature bird is a glossy brownish-black with a tawny head and neck.  The female is larger in sized.  Sexes look alike and measure between 90 and 100cm in length.

Hawks & Eagles

African Cuckoo-hawk (Aviceda cuculoides) - HBW 2, p. 107

French: Baza coucou German: Kuckucksweih Spanish: Baza Africano
Other common names: (African) Cuckoo-falcon, African Baza

Taxonomy: Aviceda cuculoides Swainson, 1837, Senegal.
Forms superspecies with A. madagascariensis, and possibly also with A. jerdoni and A. subcristata. Three subspecies recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

• cuculoides Swainson, 1837 - woodland from Senegal E to SW Ethiopia and S to Nigeria and N Zaire.
• batesi (Swann, 1920) - lowland rain forest from Sierra Leone E to E Uganda and S to N Angola.
• verreauxii Lafresnaye, 1846 - woodland and coastal, riparian and montane forest from Kenya S to N Namibia and South Africa.

Source: The Internet Bird Collection

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