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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 11h

Birds of feather PUN together ! Liked the joke ? Consider dropping a feather 🪶 below to let me know, liking and sharing ! I know my drawings 🎨are not the most aesthetic, but I hope you get the ! ✨Use your imagination to enhance the experience!✨

Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 11h

They mostly keep to themselves, although pairs will sometime forage close to each other.
They feed mainly on arthropods, like grasshoppers and beetles, but also devour small animals like frogs, lizards, small tortoises and snakes.
They can fight Cobras ! Wah-ssa- ssa !

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 11h

The secretary bird, is specialize in kicking its prey - some may see a reminder of the crane kick here - reaching 194 N in 15 ms !

Secretary birds are iconic members of the sub-saharan savanna habitats. They are elegant, precise and efficient martial artist.

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 11h

Is it a wader 🌊? Is it a professional human Kung Fu fighter in disguise 🥋?

No it’s the 🪶 Secretary bird!

This funny looking raptor, walks on long slender legs and wears a crown of fancy feathers, but his predator is actually a real martial artists ⚔️.

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 11h

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 11h

Which bird can you trust with your administrative tasks ?

#birds #ornithology #birdsoffeatherpuntogether #scicomm

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 9d

Why did the chicken cross the road ?

#roadsidehawk #rupornismagnirostris #birds
#birdsoftheworld #birdsofprey #birdsoffeather #birdsoffeatherpuntogether #ninjaraptors #ninja #martialarts #ornithology #scicomm #animalbehaviour

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 9d

Deforestation might help this bird expanding into areas that would otherwise be suboptimal. But habitat loss and pesticides may cause decline in population. Notably, boa constrictors are are natural predators.

Sources: Birds of the world data base.

Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 9d

Roadside hawks are one of the more vocal raptors especially during courtship and aerial displays.
Least concern.

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 9d

They usually catch prey by perch-hunting 🪾 from branches or fence posts, and then dropping or gliding down onto targets. They can even take advantage of grass fires🔥 , risking their own feathers 🪶 , or army ant swarms in order to catch insects.

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 9d

They are highly opportunistic predators, preying on insects 🐜, spiders🕷️, reptiles 🐍, frogs , small mammals like guinea pigs, opossums, hares, bats 🦇and Deppe’s squirrel, some birds, eggs 🪺and nestling of Sand-colored Nighthawk (Chordeiles rupestris).

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 9d

The 🚲Roadside hawk is a found in many different environments form Northern Mexico to Northern Argentina, with a preference for forest edges 🌳. It is one of the most widespread raptors of the neotropics.

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 9d

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 9d

Why did the chicken cross the road ?

#roadsidehawk #rupornismagnirostris #birds
#birdsoftheworld #birdsofprey #birdsoffeather #birdsoffeatherpuntogether #ninjaraptors #ninja #martialarts #ornithology #scicomm #animalbehaviour

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Team Miyagoatea @goatyourtea.bsky.social · 17d

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