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Great Grey Owls are able to locate prey a foot under snow using only their hearing.

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Red Kites were highly valued during the Middle Ages as scavengers which helped clear London’s streets of carrion and waste. They were even granted protection by royal decree.

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Kestrels don’t build their own nest. Instead, they use nests of other large birds (such as pigeons or crows), holes in trees, crevices in walls and cliff faces, or ledges of buildings.

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Most bones in birds are hollow, including the ones in their skull.

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The heaviest Golden Eagle ever recorded in North America weighed a whopping 7.2kg! It is probably the heaviest Golden Eagle ever recorded in the world.

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Gymnogenes have very flexible intertarsal leg joints. This means they can move their lower leg forwards, backwards and sideways.

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Great Grey Owls aggressively defend their nests and have even been reported driving away black bears!

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Goshawk pairs may copulate as many as 500-600 times per clutch.

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Golden Eagles are more closely related to hawks (like the Red-tailed Hawk) than to Bald Eagles. Bald Eagles are more closely related to kites.

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Falcons have a notch in their beak called a ‘tooth’, which is used to dispatch their prey.

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