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bird of prey

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


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Garcia-Heras M-S, Mougeot F, Arroyo B, Avery G, Avery M, Simmons RE 2017. Is the Black Harrier Circus maurus a specialist predator? Assessing the diet of a threatened raptor species endemic to southern Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 88 (1) 1-8
Website link:https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2016.1257515
Lowrey A 1977. Chanting Goshawk (R165) hunting behaviour. Laniarius 8 11 - 12
Braine S 2006. A second Red-throated Pipit Anthus cervinus for Namibia. Afring News 35 (1) 2-3
Website link:http://safring.adu.org.za/afring_news.php
Lockhart P 1971. Jackal Buzzard. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 42 (2) 138
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1971.9634566#.VRpENmf9kpE
WARN Project - Wildlife and Aircraft Research Namibia Project.
Website link:http://warn.nust.na/
Brown CJ 1989. A comparison of some morphometric characteristics of the Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus with other large African raptors. Vulture News 22 21 - 27
Monadjem A, Wolter K, Neser W, Kane A 2014. Effects of rehabilitation on survival rate of endangered Cape Vultures. Animal Conservation 17 (1) 52-60
Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acv.12054/abstract
Ledger JA 1980. Vultures poisoned in Caprivi. 4
Website link:http://www.iucn-vulturenews.org/
Kohler S, Mablouké C, Hill JM, le Corre M, Connan M, Ludynia K, Kemper J, Huisanem J, Underhill LG, Cherel Y, McQuiad CD, Jaquemet S 2010. Are African Black Oystercatchers good indicators of large-scale trends in intertidal community? A stable isotope study.
Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281917676_Are_African_Black_Oystercatchers_good_indicators_of_large-scale_trends_in_intertidal_community_A_stable_isotope_study
Ludynia K, Roux J-P, Kemper J, Underhill LG 2010. Surviving off junk: low-energy prey dominates the diet of African Penguins Spheniscus demersus at Mercury Island, Namibia, between 1996 and 2009. African Journal of Marine Science 32 (3) 563-572
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Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/1814232X.2010.538151
Santangeli A, Arkumarev V, Rust N, Girardello M 2016. Understanding, quantifying and mapping the use of poison by commercial farmers in Namibia – Implications for scavengers' conservation and ecosystem health. Biological Conservation 204 (Part B) 205-211
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Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716306280
Southern African Bird Atlas Project 2.
Website link:http://sabap2.adu.org.za/index.php
Avibase - the world bird database.
Website link:http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/myavibase.jsp
Komen J Birdlife Botswana.
Website link:http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/publications.html
Kinahan J 1975. Effect of weather on the nestling weight of an African Hawk Eagle. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 46 (2) 181 - 183
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1975.9639512#.VRuXrWf9kpE
Kemp AC, Finch-Davies CG 1980. The Birds of Prey of Southern Africa.
Jones BTB, Brown CJ 1991. Land reform: the environmental aspect.
Jensen RAC 1979. Report on the 1979 Kavango avifaunal survey: Resource management and conservation recommendations.
Website link:http://nivenlib.pfp.uct.ac.za/amlibweb/webquery.dll
Hahn SH 1946. Heronry at Ondangwa, SWA. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 17 (4) 360 - 364
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1946.9639257#.VRJi6Wc5ApE
Gaerdes JH 1960. Yellow Billed Kites Milvus migrans feeding on harvester termites. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 31 (4) 177
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1960.9632667#.VRLMU2c5ApE
García-Ripollés C, López-López P, Urios V 2011. Ranging Behaviour of Non-Breeding Eurasian Griffon Vultures Gyps fulvus: A GPS-Telemetry Study. Acta Ornithologica 46 (2) 127-134
Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/000164511X625892
Mills MSL, Olmos F, Melo M, Dean WRJ 2011. Mount Moco: its importance to the conservation of Swierstra's Francolin Pternistis swierstrai and the Afromontane avifauna of Angola. Bird Conservation International 21 (02) 119-133
Website link:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0959270910000493
Liminana R, Soutullo A, Arroyo B, Urios V 2012. Protected areas do not fulfil the wintering habitat needs of the trans-Saharan migratory Montagu's harrier. Biological Conservation 145 (1) 62-69
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320711003788
Donnelly BG 1966. The range of the Booted Eagle, Aquila pennata (Gmelin), in southern Africa with notes on field identification. Annals of the Cape Provincial Museum 5 109 - 115
Dean WRJ, Milton SJ 1988. Dispersal of seeds by raptors. African Journal of Ecology 26 (2) 173 - 176
Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1988.tb00967.x/abstract
Dean WRJ, Sinclair JC 1974. Black Harrier. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 45 (2) 134
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1974.9639498#.VRqySWf9kpE
de Villiers JS 1972. The Yellowbilled Kite in South West Africa. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 43 (2) 136
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1972.9632588#.VRpKnmf9kpE
Davidson I 1976. Long-legged Buzzard. Bokmakierie 28 74
Website link:http://witsbirdclub.org.za/downloads/
Davidson I 1982. Booted Eagles possibly breeding in the Richtersveld (northwestern Cape), and further sight records from Namibia. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 53 (2) 117
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1982.9634735#.VSvN7Wf9kpE
Barnard P, Simmons R 1986. The functions of leg-lowering in territorial predatory birds. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 57 (2) 107 - 109
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1986.9634133#.VSZ-Xmf9kpE
Simmons RE, Smith PC, Macwhirter RB 1986. Hierarchies among Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) harems and the costs of polygyny. Journal of Animal Ecology 55 (3) 755 - 771
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4414
Barnard P 1987. Foraging site selection by 3 raptors in relation to grassland burning in a montane habitat. African Journal of Ecology 25 (1) 35 - 45
Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2028.1987.tb01088.x/abstract
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#.VS0agGf9kpE
Simmons RE 1988. Food and the deceptive acquisition of mates by polygynous male harriers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 23 (2) 83 - 92
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4600193
BirdWatch Zambia (BWZ).
Website link:http://www.birdwatchzambia.org/content/index.shtml
Brown CJ, Piper SE 1988. Status of Cape Vultures in the Natal Drakensberg and their cliff site selection. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 59 (3) 126 - 136
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1988.9633714#.VSY8BWf9kpE
Brown CJ, Bruton AG 1991. Plumage color and feather structure of the Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus). Journal of Zoology 223 (4) 627 - 640
Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1991.tb04392.x/abstract
Komen J 1991. Growth in Cape Vulture nestlings. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 62 (3 - 4) 149 - 155
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1991.9639653#.VRz99mf9kpE
Avery DM, Avery G, Palmer NG 2005. Micromammalian distribution and abundance in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, as evidenced by Barn owls Tyto alba (Scopoli). Journal of Natural History 39 (22) 2047-2071
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222930500044631#.VLUUimctApE
Meyburg B-U, Mendelsohn JM, Ellis DH, Smith DG, Meyburg C, Kemp AC 1995. Year-round movements of a Wahlberg's Eagle Aquila wahlbergi tracked by satellite. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 66 (4) 135 - 140
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1995.9632720#.VRztaWf9kpE
Davis DHS 1959. The Barn Owl's contribution to ecology and palaeoecology. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 30 (1) 144-153
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1959.9633322#.VHw3LWctBHg
Andersen DE, Rongstad OJ, Mytton WR 1985. Line transect analysis of raptor abundance along roads. Wildlife Society Bulletin 13 (4) 533 - 539
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3782684
Covas R, Huyser O, Doutrelant C 2004. Pygmy Falcon predation of nestlings of their obligate host, the Sociable Weaver. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 75 (4) 325-326
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2989/00306520409485463#.VHwormctBHg
Olsen PD 1991. Do large males have small testes - a note on allometric variation and sexual size dimorphism in raptors. Oikos 60 (1) 134 - 136
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3545004
Avery DM 1999. A preliminary assessment of the relationship between trophic variability in southern African Barn Owls Tyto alba and climate. Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 70 (3-4) 179-186
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00306525.1999.9634232#.VHhEV2ctBHg
Kostrzewa A 1991. Interspecific interference competition in 3 European raptor species. Ethology, Ecology & Evolution 3 (2) 127 - 143
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08927014.1991.9525379
Dixon JEW 1994. Prey of the African Scops Owl Otus senegalensis at Fort Cox, Alice District, Eastern Cape, South Africa. South African Forestry Journal 170 (1) 31-32
Website link:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00382167.1994.9629671#.VHb5hGctBHg
Barton NWH, Houston DC 1991. The use of titanium-dioxide as an inert marker for digestion studies in raptors. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A - Comparative Physiology 100 (4) 1025 - 1029
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0300962991903316
Kjellen N 1992. Differential timing of autumn migration between sex and age-groups in raptors at Falsterbo, Sweden. Ornis Scandinavica 23 (4) 420 - 434
Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3676673
van Wyk E, van der Bank FH, Verdoorn GH, Bouwman H 1993. Chlorinated-hydrocarbon insecticide residues in the Cape Griffon Vulture (Gyps coprotheres). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology C - Pharmacology Toxicology & Endocrinology 104 (2) 209 - 220
Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/074284139390026H
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