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    Squee! Falconry Experience

    By far the safest course. . .. ;)
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    Squee! Falconry Experience

    For the Strigiformes/Accipitriformes connection see— http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop723.htm For the falcon/parrot connection google “falcons related to parrots?”—you’ll get lots of hits. And that, my friend, is all the spoon-feeding you’ll get from me on this topic. ;)
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    Squee! Falconry Experience

    Here’s a Wikipedia article on the new bird of prey taxonomy— https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_of_prey
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    Squee! Falconry Experience

    Here’s what comes most readily to hand. . .. http://checklist.aou.org/taxa/ Well, perhaps, though I’m not as active a birder as I used to be so not up on the latest birding jargon. In general, raptor—diurnal or nocturnal—is much more commonly heard in birding circles here than bird of prey...
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    Squee! Falconry Experience

    Not true, owls now being regarded as comparatively close relatives of eagles, hawks, ospreys, kites, condors and the rest while modern classifications place falcons etc. closer to woodpeckers, parrots and passerines than to the other "raptors". And, in any case, none of this has anything to do...
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    Squee! Falconry Experience

    “Handbook of North American Birds: Volume 4, Diurnal Raptors (Part 1)”. It’s the “diurnal” that’s relevant here, as it presupposes there are such things as “nocturnal” raptors (i.e., owls). The “Handbook” project was abandoned early on, the “diurnal” bird of prey volumes being the last to be...
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    Not so— https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-North-American-Birds-Diurnal/dp/0300040598/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1537720310&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=raptors+the+curious+nature+of+diurnal+birds+of+prey The fact is, “raptor” is an informal term so “true” doesn’t come into it except insofar...
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    Squee! Falconry Experience

    No need to apologize. . .. I’ve just checked a half-dozen dictionaries, all of which—with no exceptions—treat “raptor” and “bird of prey” as strictly synonymous. Thus the common distinction between “diurnal raptors” (or birds of prey) and “nocturnal raptors”’(or birds of prey). Personally, I...
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