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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 which is hardly ever used.
'The nocturnal birds of prey – the owls – are classified separately as members of two extant families of the order Strigiformes:
They are still not being called raptors but birds of prey which was never at odds and most Europeans don't recognise them as raptors regardless of the science.
Who is that page by, no accreditations or citations?
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 which is hardly ever used.
Makes sense moving Owls closer to raptors for practicality in book form as would, for a lot of people, placing Swifts near Swallows but that's another matter yet they'll further mess the books up by putting Falcons next to Parrots.
I'll be interested to see what the authors do with this order.