RECENTLY RENOVATED CASE OF BRITISH BIRDS OF PREY BY LES TURNER,A COMBINATION OF MODERN MOUNTINGS AND ANTIQUE BIRDS,RESTORED AND MOUNTED IN A CASE VACATED BY A COLLECTION OF BIRDS NOW IN LOS ANGELES
MONTAGUS HARRIERS(CIRCUS PYGARGUS) BY COLE OF NORWICH,FORMERLY MUCH MORE COMMON THAN IT IS TODAY,HOPEFULLY ITS NUMBERS WILL INCREASE THROUGH PROTECTION
HEN HARRIER FEMALE ON RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE
FEMALE HEN HARRIER FROM GLASS CASE
HEN HARRIER FEMALE
HEN HARRIER MALE IN LARGE CASE OF HARRIERS AND HAWKS
HEN HARRIER FEMALE IN LARGE CASE
MONTAGUS HARRIER FEMALE SUPERB MOUNT
MONTAGUS HARRIER YOUNG FEMALE
MONTAGUS HARRIER FEMALE
FEMALE MONTAGUS HARRIER
HEN HARRIER(CIRCUS CYANEUS)
BREEDS IN UPLAND MOORLAND AND MOUNTANOUS REGIONS,WINTERS ON COASTS ESTUARIES,BRITAINS COMMONEST BUT STILL PERSECUTED HARRIER ON GROUSE MOORS,SHOOTING ESTATES,EVEN WITH CONSTANT MONITORING BY RSPB
HAUNT OF THE MARSH HARRIER,12 YOUNG HARRIERS FLEDGED FROM THIS REEDMARSH IN 2006
RED KITE(MILVUS MILVUS)BRITAINS MOST ELEGANT AND GRACEFUL BIRD OF PREY,FROM NEAR EXTINCTION JUST A FEW YEARS AGO,RAPIDLY EXPANDING WITH THE HELP OF BREEDING RELEASE PROGRAMMES,BY FAR THE BEST RE-INTRODUCTION SCHEME EVER.
RED KITE IN CLOSE UP SUPER BIRD,now increasing due to Release prpogrammes.
RED KITE IN HUGE CASE OF BRITISH BIRDS OF PREY
BLACK KITE IN DOME,RARE VAGRANT TO BRITAIN,
BLACK-KITE HEAD & SHOULDERS SHOT
GORGEOUS HONEY BUZZARD
COMMON BUZZARD(BUTEO BUTEO)NOW POSSBILY BRITAINS COMMONEST BIRD OF PREY DUE TO RAPID INCREASE IN NUMBERS,HAS EXPANDED ALONG MOTORWAY CORRIDORS AND TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF HUGE NUMBERS OF ROAD KILLED WILDLIFE,IE PHEASANT PIGEONS, AND RABBITS,FORMERLY A BIRD OF BROAD LEAVED WOODLAND HILLS AND VALLEYS,NO I HAVE A PAIR EVERY MORNING EIGHT MILES FROM THE GEOGRAPHICAL CENTRE OF ENGLAND IN OPEN FARMLAND NESTING.
COMMON BUZZARD(BUTEO BUTEO)LIGHT PHASE JUVENILE
COMMON BUZZARD
CASED COMMON BUZZARD
COMMON BUZZARD MODERN MOUNT
LIGHT PHASE YOUNG COMMON BUZZARD(BUTEO BUTEO)
PAIR OF PETER SPICER BUZZARDS
COMMON BUZZARD BY PETER SPICER
CASED BUZZARD AND ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD
BUZZARDS
PAIR OF BUZZARDS BY SPICER
CASE OF BUZZARDS BY HUTCHENS
YOUNG BUZZARD
COMMON BUZZARD BY PETER SPICER LEAMINGTON
BUZZARD ON RABBIT PREY
BUZZARD WITHOUT GLASS CASE
BUZZARD IN LARGE CASE
SPARROWHAWK ON BULLFINCH ONE OF MY EARLIEST PURCHASED CASES
TWO MODERN MOUNTED SPARROW HAWK FEMALES
HEAD & SJOULDERS OF SPARROWHAWK
SPARROW HAWK FROM LARGE CASE
VERY NICE MODERN MOUNT
SPARROW HAWK IN HUNTING POSE VERY NICE MOUNT
SPARROWHAWK BY HUTCHINSON OF DERBY
OLD SPARROWHAWK IN CASE BY HOOPER
SPARROW HAWK IN CLOSE UP
SPARROW HAWK ON BLACKBIRDS SWOOP/HUNTING SCENE
BUZZARD ON RABBIT PREY
ROUGH LEGGED BUZZARD(BUTEO LAPOGUS)BY PASHLEY OF CLEY-NEXT-THE-SEA,ONE OF OUR OLDEST EXHIBITS,FROM THE NORTH NORFOLK TAXIDERMIST PASHLEY,A VAGRANT BIRD TO THE EAST COAST OF BRITAIN,AROUND 100 BIRDS SEEN PER YEAR,SOMETIMES BIGGER INMFLUXES ARRIVE.
COMMON BUZZARD(BUTEO BUTEO) ON WOODCOCK PREY
SUPERB HONEY BUZZARD
HONEY BUZZARD ORIGINALLY IN THE ANDY HENRY COLLECTION
 HONEY BUZZARD(PERNIS APIVORUS)A MIGRATORY RARE BREEDING BIRD OF PREY,IN BROAD LEAVED WOODLAND,RIDES AND GLADES.UPTO 60 PAIRS NOW NEST IN UK,MAINLY INSECTIVOROUS,AS ITS NAME SUGGESTS BUT ALSO EATS,LIZARDS,FROGS,BIRDS AND MAMMALS.
COMMON BUZZARD(BUTEO BUTEO)ON WOODCOCK PREY
GOSHAWK(ACCIPTER GENTILIS)THE SILENT ASSASIN OF THE PINE FORESTS,ONCE EXTINCT AS A BREEDING BIRD IN BRITAIN IN THE LATE 1800s,DUE TO PERSUCUTION OVER GAME TAKING IN UPLAND MOORLAND,MOUNTING AND CONIFEROUS ESTATES, A POPULATION INCREASE TO OVER 400 PAIRS,HAS RE-APPERARED AS A RESULT OF ESCAPED AND RELEASED FALCONRY STOCK.THE FEMALE OF THIS IMPRESSIVE SPECIES IS AS BIG AS A BUZZARD,BUT SUPRISINGLY QUIET AND ELUSIVE,OUTSIDE OF BREEDING TERRITORY.
NORTHERN GOSHAWK BRACKEN FALCONERS BIRD FROM THE FORTIES
BRACKEN ON WOODCOCK
CLOSE UP OF LABLE
GOSHAWK JUVENILE FEMALE
GOSHAWK ON SQUIRREL BY SPICER
GOSHAWK ON RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE
SILENT ASSASIN OF THE WOODS
FEMALE GOSHAWK IN CLOSE UP
FEMALE JUVENILE ACCIPTER GENTILIS
GOSHAWK FEMALE ON SQUIRREL
SILENT ASSASIN OF THE NORTHERN EUROPEAN CONIFER WOODLANDS
CLOSE UP OF NORTHERN GOSHAWK
SPARROW HAWK HEN ON GREAT TIT A COMMON PREY ITEM IN GARDENS
SPARROW HAWK(ACCIPTER NISIS)ANOTHER BRITISH BIRD OF PREY RAPIDLY INCREASING ITS NUMBERS,A SERIOUS PREDATOR TO GARDEN BIRDS,HAS LEARNED TO INTERCEPT BIRDS NEAR BIRD TABLES AND NEST BOXES,NOW RECOVERED FROM BEING DECIMATED BY PESTICIDES.
LOVELY 3 SIDED GLASS CASED SPARROW HAWK
SPARROW HAWK MALE(ACCIPTER NISIS)THE MALE SPARROW HAWK IS MUCH SMALLER THAN THE FEMALE,AND HAS MORE DUSKY UNDERPARTS AND STEEL BLUE UPPER FEATHERING,FEMALE IS MUCH MORE BROWNER.
SPARROWHAWK(ACCIPTER NICIS)
SPARROW HAWK
SPARROWHAWK CLOSE UP
VICTORIAN BUZZARD
HARRIS HAWK(PARABUTEO UNICINCTUS)NORTH AMERICAN HAWK,NOW DECLINING IN MOST PARTS OF THE STATES EXEPT TEXAS,A BIRD OF BRUSHLANDS,STEPPE,CACTUS DESERT AND SOME WOODED AREAS,POPULAR WITH FALCONERS AND A SUCCESFUL CAPTIVE BREEDING SPECIES SO THIS MAY SUPPORT RE-INTRODUCTIONS IN FUTURE.
CASED HARRIS HAWK FALCONERS BIRD
HARRIS HAWK,THE FALCONERS FRIEND.
HARRIS HAWK ON NUTHATCH PREY,A QUICK SNACK
HARRIS HAWK
FERRUGINOUS HAWK (BUTEO REGALIS)PALE FORM,ALTHOUGH NOT A BRITISH BIRD THIS IS SUCH A SUPERB MOUNT HAVE INCLUDED IT,NORTH AMERICAN PRARIE,SAVANNAH,DRY PLAINS,
FERRUGINOUS HAWK(BUTEO REGALIS)AMERICAN SPECIES OF HAWK
HARRIS HAWK(PARABUTEO UNICINCTUS)A DARK BUTEO OF THE SOUTH-WEST OF THE UNITED STATES,18 INCH HIGH HAWK THAT FEEDS ON MICE,GOPHERS,LIZARDS & SMALL BIRDS CAUGHT IN BRUSHLAND,POPULAR WITH FALCONERS,THIS IS AN EX FALCONERS CLOSED RING BIRD
JUVENILE HONEY BUZZARD FROM VICTORIA CASE
HABITAT OF MARSH HARRIER IN NORTH NORFOLK
JUVENILE VICTORIAN MARSH HARRIER(CIRCUS AERUGINOSIS)A SUPERB MAJESTIC PREDATOR OF FENLAND AND REEDMARSH,SIZE OF A BUZZARD,SLOW FLYING,FORMERLEY DRAMATICALLY REDUCED AS A BREEDING BIRD BY DRAINING OF THE EAST ANGLIAN FENS,BUT WITH EXELLENT RECENT PROTECTION NUMBERS ARE RISING DRAMATICALLY,FROM ONLY ONE PAIR AT RSPB MINSMERE IN 1971,WHEN I WAS A VOLUNTARY WARDEN,THERE ARE NOW OVER 150 FEMALES BREEDING IN BRITAIN,THIS IS A RATHER POOR SPECIMEN FROM PASHLEY OF CLEY,RE-CASED.
HEN HARRIER
HEN HARRIER IN CASE FEMALE
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