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Topic: Eurasian Sparrowhawk


  
  Falconry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eurasian or Common Buzzard is also used, although this species requires more perseverance if rabbits are to be hunted.
However, there are at least two species that have successfully been used, the Eurasian Eagle Owl and the Great Horned Owl.
Sparrowhawks were formerly used to take a range of small birds, but are really too delicate for serious falconry and have fallen out of favour now that American species are available.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falconry   (3803 words)

  
 Kenya 1981 trip list
This topic recently got me thinking about the relative "value" of other spots on the trip in terms of unique species (excluding a handful of Eurasian migrants that we happened to see at but one spot).
Of my 560 birds, some 283 (just over 50%) were found at more than one locale.
One migrant from Eurasian was in the hotel garden in Nairobi
www.montereybay.com /creagrus/Kenya1981list.html   (9093 words)

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