The Accipitriformes are an order of birds that includes most of the diurnal birds of prey, including hawks, eagles, vultures, kites, ospreys and secretary birds, but not falcons or seriemas. The gener
The Accipitridae is one of the four families within the order Accipitriformes, and is a family of small to large birds of prey with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. They fe
Accipitriformes
…The order includes the following families: Order Accipitriformes Accipitridae (eagles, harriers, erns, hawks, kites, Old World vultures) Pandionidae (ospreys) (1 or 2 species…
Buteo buteo Scotland 8
Neophrontops americanus fossil
Neogyps errans fossil
Portrait of a subadult bald eagle, showing its strongly hooked beak and the cere covering the base of the beak