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Any of various carnivorous bird of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes which feed on meat taken by hunting. (Source: MGH)

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Gould WR, Fuller MR 1995. Survival and population-size estimation in raptor studies - a comparison of 2 methods. Journal of Raptor Research 29 (4) 256 - 264

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Hertel F 1995. Ecomorphological indicators of feeding behavior in recent and fossil raptors. Auk 112 (4) 890 - 903

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Allen PE, Goodrich LJ, Bildstein KL 1996. Within-year and among-year effects of cold fronts on migrating raptors at Hawk-Mountain, Pennsylvania, 1934-1991. Auk 113 (2) 1934 - 1991

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Le Roux A, Bretagnolle V 1996. Sex-ratio variations in broods of Montagu's harriers Circus pygargus. Journal of Avian Biology 27 63 - 69

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Elliott JE, Langelier KM, Mineau P, Wilson LK 1996. Poisoning of Bald Eagles and Red-Tailed Hawks by carbofuran and fensulfothion in the Fraser Delta of British-Columbia, Canada. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 32 (3) 486 - 491

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Dellomo G, Cavallina R 1996. Blood-chemistry and hematological values of captive Egyptian vultures (Neophron percnopterus). Avian Pathology 25 (3) 613 - 618

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Thiollay J-M 1997. Distribution and abundance patterns of bird community and raptor populations in the Andaman archipelago. Ecography 20 (1) 67 - 82

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3683064

Bamford AJ, Monadjem A, Anderson MD, Anthony A, Borello WD, Bridgeford M, Bridgeford P, Hancock P, Howells B, Wakelin J, Hardy ICW 2009. Trade-offs between specificity and regional generality in habitat association models: a case study of two species of African vulture. Journal of Applied Ecology 46 (4) 852-860

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01669.x/abstract

Coetzee CG 1972. The identification of southern African small mammal remains in owl pellets. Cimbebasia A (2) 53 - 64

Clinning CF 1980. Vulture study in South West Africa. Vulture News 3 7 - 10

Website link:http://www.iucn-vulturenews.org/

Herremans M, Herremans-Tonnoeyr D 2000. Land use and the conservation status of raptors in Botswana. Biological Conservation 94 (1) 31-41

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320799001664

Mendelsohn J 1983. Causes of Mortality in Blackshouldered Kites. Bokmakierie 35 (1) 11-13

Willoughby EJ 1968. Water economy of the stark's lark and grey-backed finch-lark from the Namib Desert of South West Africa. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 27 (3) 723-745

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0010406X68906142

Davies JG, Cowlishaw G 1996. Baboon carnivory and raptor interspecific competition in the Namib Desert. Journal of Arid Environments 34 (2) 247-249

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196396901068

Cook WE 1997. Vultures. Avian Desert Predators 15-30

Website link:http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-60353-2_2

Vulture re-sightings Namibia.

Website link:https://vulturesresightings.crowdmap.com/

Chittenden H 1985. A review of raptor persecution in southern Africa with special regard to farming communities. Proceedings of the Birds and Man Symposium 309 - 320

Cade TJ 1965. Relations between raptors and Columbiform birds at a desert waterhole. Wilson Bulletin 77 340 - 345

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4159418

Butchart D 1988. Give a bird a bone. African Wildlife 42 (6) 316 - 323

Brown CJ 1988. Scavenging raptors on farmlands: What is their future?. 42 103 - 105

Website link:http://www.hbw.com/journal/afr-wildl

Brown CJ, Riekert BR, Morsbach RJ 1987. The breeding biology of the African Scops Owl. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 58 (2) 58 - 64

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1987.9634144#.VSZGomf9kpE

Brown CJ 1987. Another Cape Eagle Owl record from Namibia. Gabar 2 26 - 27

Brown CJ, Biggs HC 1984. The raptor road count project. The Babbler 8 4 - 12

Brooke RK 1972. A study of the migratory eagles Aquila nipalensis and A. pomerina (Aves: Accipitridae) in southern Africa, with notes on other large raptors.. Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Rhodesia 5 (2) 61 - 114

Broekhuysen M, Broekhuysen G 1974. Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus caeruleus) builds a nest on a telephone pole. Bokmakierie 26 36

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Braine SG 1987. Breeding of the Little Sparrowhawk in the Namib: A range extension. Gabar 2 (1) 14

Website link:http://www.gabar.org.za/

Braine SG, Braine J 1970. Osprey fishing in shallow water. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 41 (4) 263

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1970.9634379#.VRluE2f9kpE

Braine JWS, Braine SG 1969. Eagles, vultures and owls found breeding in the Kombat area. Mitteilungen Ornitologische Arbeitsgruppe SWA Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft 4 (12) 1 - 4

Braine JWS, Braine SG 1968. The Pygmy Falcon. Bokmakierie 20 2 - 3

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Brain CK 1974. The use of microfaunal remains as habitat indicators in the Namib. (2) 55 - 60

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3858068

Biggs HC, Biggs R, Freyer E 1984. Observations on the Chanting Goshawk Melierax canorus during a period of poor rainfall. Proceedings of the Second Symposium on African Predatory Birds 61 - 70

Biggs HC, Biggs R, Clinning CF 1984. Raptor densities during a period of declining rainfall. Proceedings of the Second Symposium on African Predatory Birds 108

Biggs HC 1982. A study of the biology of the Pale Chanting Goshawk (Melierax canorus) in SWA/Namibia. Mitteilungen Ornithologische Arbeitsgruppe SWA Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft

Biggs H, Steyn P, Clinning C 1981. Probable overwintering of Cape breeding Booted Eagles in Namibia. Bokmakierie 33 (1) 2 - 4

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Biggs R, Biggs H 1978. Comparative portraits of Steppe and Tawny Eagles. Bokmakierie 30 77

Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/

Vultures Namibia.

Website link:http://www.vultures-namibia.com/

Jensen RAC 1975. Movements and bio-economics of migrant raptors in South West Africa. Emu 74 (5) 315

Website link:http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MU974313.htm

Becker P 1974. Beobachtungen an palaeartischen Vögeln in ihrem Winterkwartier Südwestafrika. Journal of the SWA Scientific Society 12 1 - 86

Batchelor AL 1980. Attempted nest predation by immature Gabar Goshawk. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 51 (3) 190

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1980.9633560#.VSvVl2f9kpE

Baron HE, Baron ST 1976. Pearl Spotted Owl at Sociable Weaver nest. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 47 (4) 225

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1976.9639560#.VRuhB2f9kpE

Simmons R, Smith PC 1985. Do Northern Harriers (Circus cyaneus) choose nest sites adaptively?. Canadian Journal of Zoology 63 (3) 494-498

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Simmons R 1986. Why is the foraging success of ospreys wintering in southern Africa so low?. Gabar 1 (1) 14-19

The Peregrine Fund - Global Raptor Information Network.

Website link:http://www.globalraptors.org/grin/indexAlt.asp

Simmons R 1986. Immature black sparrowhawk eating live guineafowl. Gabar 1 (2) 60-61

Simmons R 1986. Food Provisioning, Nestling Growth and Experimental Manipulation of Brood Size in the African Redbreasted Sparrowhawk Accipiter rufiventris. Ornis Scandinavica 17 (1) 31-40

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3676750?uid=4&sid=21100861992911

Barnard P, Simmons R, Jackson HD, Goodman SM, Cyrus DP, Herholdt JJ 1986. Short Notes. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 57 (2) 107-114

Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1986.9634133

Barnard P, MacWhirter B, Simmons R, Hansen GL, Smith PC 1987. Timing of breeding and the seasonal importance of passerine prey to northern harriers (Circus cyaneus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 65 (8) 1942-1946

Website link:http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z87-295

Simmons R 1988. Offspring quality and the evolution of cainism. Ibis 130 (3) 339–357

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1988.tb08809.x/abstracthttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1988.tb08809.x/abstract

Simmons R 1990. Variations in raptor road counts due to observer speed-reply to DG Allan. Gabar 5 (1) 3-4

Simmons RE 1990. Copulation patterns of African marsh harriers: Evaluating the paternity assurance hypothesis. Animal Behaviour 40 (6) 1151–1157

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347205801812