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Hawk on Isabela Island, protecting its meal, a dead newborn sea lion pup. This hawk lives mainly on insects such as locusts and giant centipedes, as well as racer snakes (Alsophis spp.), lava lizards (Microlophus albemarlensis), and both native and introduced species of rodents, including Galápagos rice rats (Aegialomys galapagoensis), house mice (Mus musculus), and black rats (Rattus rattus).
Galapagos shearwater (Puffinus subalaris) Galapagos martin (Progne modesta) Galápagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) Galápagos penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus) Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) Great egret (Ardea alba) Great frigatebird (Fregata minor) Lava gull (Leucophaeus fuliginosus) Lava heron (Butorides sundevalli) Magnificent frigatebird ...
Clockwise from top left: Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), cinereous harrier (Circus cinereus), greater spotted eagle (Clanga clanga), harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja), secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius), osprey (Pandion haliaetus), slate-colored hawk (Buteogallus schistaceus), Galapagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis), white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus) (center).
Falconry was once called "hawking", and any bird used for falconry could be referred to as a hawk. [4]Aristotle listed eleven types of ἱέρακες (hierakes, hawks; singular ἱέραξ, hierax): aisalōn (merlin), asterias, hypotriorchēs, kirkos, leios, perkos, phassophonos, phrynologos, pternis, spizias, and triorchēs.
Fun fact: blue whales are 16 times bigger than a human. The post 50 Animals So Giant It’s Hard To Believe They’re Real (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.
The Andean condor is the national bird of Ecuador.. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Ecuador including those of the Galápagos Islands.The avifauna of Ecuador has 1669 confirmed species, of which eight are endemic to the mainland and 31 are endemic to the Galápagos.
There are many organizations dedicated to preventing and eradicating invasive species. For instance, the Charles Darwin Foundation helped create the Galápagos Inspection and Quarantine System (SICGAL) that checks the luggage brought into the Galapagos Islands for potentially invasive animals and plants.
Galapagos flycatcher. Order: Passeriformes Family: Tyrannidae. Tyrant flycatchers are a group of American passerines which are not related to the Old World flycatchers of the family Muscicapidae. Fork-tailed flycatcher, Tyrannus savana (A) Eastern kingbird, Tyrannus tyrannus (A) Galapagos flycatcher, Myiarchus magnirostris (E)