Brown Snake Eagle

Brown Snake Eagle

 

Flaying Animal | Brown Snake Eagle | has dark brown overall appearance, large head and upright stance. Adult has dark brown plumage. Slight white mottling is visible on flight feathers. Underwing is silvery-grey. In fresh plumage, brown tail shows three narrow, white bars and a fine white tip. Head is dark brown, as body. Hooked bill is black with pale grey cere. Eyes are yellow. Long bare legs and stubby feet are pale grey. Both sexes are similar in plumage, with female slightly larger than male, about 5%. Juvenile is similar to adult, but some individuals may be slightly paler, or have fine pale feathers' edges, giving a faint scaled effect. Head and breast show white feathers bases often conspicuous.

Spotted Wood Owl

Spotted Wood Owl

Flaying Animal | Spotted Wood Owl | In the past, names Strix orientalis and Strix pagodorum have been used for this species, but both considered invalid. Race wiepkeni previously referred to by the synonym Surnia whiteheadi. Three subspecies recognized. The Spotted Wood Owl (Strix seloputo) is an owl of the earless owl genus, Strix. Its range is strangely disjunct; it occurs in many regions surrounding Borneo, but not on that island it self.

Bubo Sumatranus

Bubo Sumatranus

Flaying Animal | Bubo Sumatranus  | The Barred Eagle-Owl (Bubo sumatranus), also called the Malay Eagle Owl, is a species of owl in the Strigidae family. It is found in Brunei, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. The owl is one group of birds of prey "raptor" which hunt their prey at night (nocturnal). Owls have a specific body characteristics that are different from other types of birds of prey, which is large and round heads wide, flat face and large eyes which oversees the fore, on the face plate line which is a divider in the face around the eyes. Almost all types of feather color pattern of owls is a blend of gray, brown, black and white. The combination is necessary in camouflage when hunting prey and avoiding enemies.

The Blakiston's Fish Owl

The Blakiston's Fish Owl

Flaying Animal | The Blakiston's Fish Owl | Massive owl with long, broad, horizontal ear-tufts. Pale grey-brown facial disc. Buff-brown, broadly streaked upperparts. Buff and dark brown barred wings. Pale tail with dark bars. White throat. Pale buffish-brown underparts with long streaks. Orange-yellow iris. Blakiston's Fish Owl, Bubo blakistoni, is a fish owl, a sub-group of eagle owls who specialized in hunting riparian areas. This species is a part of the family known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. Surveys suggest that the fish owl population in the southern Russian Far East (encompassing all of Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsky Krai south from the Amur River) is approximately 100-130 pairs. With extrapolation to the entire fish owl range, the population could be more than 800 pairs. Recent surveys estimate one pair of Blakiston's fish owls every 3.8 river km along the Samarga River in northern Primorye, possibly the highest natural concentration of this species globally. Concentrations of breeding pairs in suitable habitat are generally described as one pair every 6-12 river km.

The Great Horned Owl

The Great Horned Owl

Flaying Animal | The Great Horned Owl | Great Horned Owls can vary in colour from a reddish brown to a grey or black and white. The underside is a light grey with dark bars and a white band of feathers on the upper breast. They have large, staring yellow-orange eyes, bordered in most races by an orange-buff facial disc. The name is derived from tufts of feathers that appear to be "horns" which are sometimes referred to as "ear tufts" but have nothing to do with hearing at all. The large feet are feathered to the ends of the toes, and the immature birds resemble the adults. Females are 10 to 20% larger than males.

The Snowy Owl

The Snowy Owl

 

Flaying Animal | The Snowy Owl | The ghostlike snowy owl has unmistakable white plumage that echoes its Arctic origins. The Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. The Snowy Owl was first classified in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who developed binomial nomenclature to classify and organize plants and animals. The bird is also known in North America as the Arctic Owl, Great White Owl or Harfang.

The Great Grey Owl

The Great Grey Owl

Flaying Animal | The Great Grey Owl | This is the largest bird of the owl, but very light weight, similar to the Wedge-Tailed Eagle Australia. Great horned owls are adaptable birds and live from the Arctic to South America. They are at home in suburbia as well as in woods and farmlands. Northern populations migrate in winter, but most live permanently in more temperate climes.

The Eurasia Eagle Owl

The Eurasia Eagle Owl

Flaying Animal | The Eurasia Eagle Owl |  The upperparts are brown-black and tawny-buff, showing as dense freckling on the forehead and crown, stripes on the nape, sides and back of the neck, and dark splotches on the pale ground colour of the back, mantle and scapulars. A narrow buff band, freckled with brown buff, runs up from the base of the bill, above the inner part of the eye and along the inner edge of the black-brown, "ear-tufts". The Eagle Owl has a wingspan of 138–200 cm (55–79 in) and measures 58–75 cm (23–30 in) long. Females weigh 1.75-4.5 kg (3.9-10 lbs) and males weigh 1.5-3.2 kg (3.3-7 lbs).

Copsychus interpositus

Copsychus interpositus

Flaying Animal | Copsychus interpositus | One of the melodious sound of birds in the world. Race stricklandii (together with barbouri) commonly treated as a separate species, but intergrades with suavis over a zone of almost 300 km wide.

Black shama

Copsychus cebuensis

Flaying Animal | Copsychus cebuensis | Black shama | The black shama is a medium-sized bird with entirely black plumage. The male has a dark bluish sheen to its plumage, whilst the female is a little more blackish grey, and smaller than the male. The tail is long and graduated, the bill is black and the eyes are dark brown. Juveniles are greyer with browner wings . The black shama’s song is a rich, varied series of melodious whistles, and it is also known to mimic the sounds of other birds

White-vented Shama

White-vented Shama

Flaying Animal | White-vented Shama | Copsychus niger  | The White-vented Shama (Copsychus niger) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines. Population justification The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as uncommon, although perhaps locally common. Trend justification The population is suspected to be in decline owing to ongoing habitat destruction.

Copsychus luzoniensis

Copsychus luzoniensis

Flaying Animal | Copsychus luzoniensis  | The White-browed Shama (Copsychus luzoniensis) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is endemic to the Philippines. Population justification The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as common.

White-rumped Shama

White-rumped Shama

Flaying Animal | White-rumped Shama | The 11" male is dark and glossy. Head, throat, upper chest, back and wings are glossy black with purplish reflections. The rump, upper tail coverts and thighs are white. Underparts are a rich chestnut stage. The beak is black and the legs and feet  are flesh colored. The tail has dull black central feathers with graduated feathers on the side boldly tipped in white. The White-rumped Shama (Copsychus malabaricus) is a small passerine bird of the family Muscicapidae. It was formerly classified as a member of the Thrush family, Turdidae, causing it to be commonly known as the White-rumped Shama Thrush or simply Shama Thrush.

Circoetus cinerascens

Circoetus cinerascens

Flaying Animal | Circoetus cinerascens | This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Despite the fact that the population trend appears to be decreasing, the decline is not believed to be sufficiently rapid to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population trend criterion (>30% decline over ten years or three generations). The population size has not been quantified, but it is not believed to approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the population size criterion (<10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline estimated to be >10% in ten years or three generations, or with a specified population structure). For these reasons the species is evaluated as Least Concern.

Steller's sea eagles

Harpy Eagle

Flaying Animal | Harpy Eagle | Steller's sea eagles | Eagle that looks funny and cute is often referred to as the most powerful eagle in the world. His body can weigh 9 kg, body length 105 cm, and its wings span of 2 meters. Claws longer than the bear paws and has a strong grip, so he can break a man's arm or even through the bones of the head.

Grey-headed Fish Eagle

Grey-headed Fish Eagle

Flying Animal |Grey-headed Fish Eagle | Grey-headed Fish Eagle is a largish stocky raptor at about 70–75 cm in length. Adults have dark brown wings and back, a grey head and reddish brown breast. The lower belly, thighs and tail are white, the latter having a black terminal band. Sexes are similar, but young birds have a pale buff head, underparts and underwing, all with darker streaking. Grey-headed Fish Eagle, as its English and scientific names suggest, is a specialist fish eater which hunts over lakes, lagoons and large rivers.

lchthyophaga humilis

lchthyophaga humilis

Flying Animal | lchthyophaga humilis | Information on the lesser fish-eagle is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly. There have been some stray reports from Gujarat and Central India and in more recent times from the Kaveri river valley in southern India. The distribution in southern India is not yet confirmed. It is also found in small numbers in other countries in south west Asia.

Haliaeetus vociferoides

Flaying Animal | Haliaeetus vociferoides | The large Madagascar fish-eagle (Haliaeetus vociferoides) is one of the rarest birds of prey and is the largest raptor in Madagascar. 70-80 cm. Large fish-eagle. Dark reddish-brown back and underparts (latter streaked rufous), dark brown cap, whitish cheeks and throat. Dark brown wings, rather short white tail. Juvenile streaked on head, with pale fringes to flight feathers and paler underparts, and dark tail. Its closest relative is the African Fish Eagle, Haliaeetus vocifer. Together, they form a distinct species pair lineage of sea-eagles, which separated soon after the divergence of the genus; they retain the ancestral dark beak, talon, and eye, but unlike other Haliaeetus species, they always have at least partially white tails, even while juvenile. As in other sea-eagle species pairs, one species (the Madagascar Fish Eagle in this case) has a tan head, while the other has a white one.

Haliaeetus pelagicus Steller

Haliaeetus pelagicus Steller

Flying Animal | Haliaeetus pelagicus Steller | Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) is one of the largest of the sea and fish eagles of the genus Haliaeetus .These large blackish-brown birds have an enormous, strongly arched yellow bill . The feathers on the shoulders, tail and legs are white , and females are generally the larger sex .The relationships of Steller's Sea-eagle are not completely resolved. mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data tentatively suggests that this species's ancestors diverged early in the colonization of the Holarctic by sea eagles. This is strongly supported by morphological traits such as the yellow eyes, beak, and talons shared by this species and the other northern sea-eagles, the White-tailed and Bald Eagles, and biogeography. It is unique among all sea eagles in having a yellow bill even in juvenile birds, and possessing 14, not 12, rectrices. The skull (at about 14.6 cm (5.7 in)) and bill are the largest of any eagle and comparable in size to the largest Old World vultures, the biggest accipitrids.

Haliaeetus vocifer

Haliaeetus vocifer

Flaying Animal | Haliaeetus vocifer | The African Fish Eagle is most frequently seen by the rivers, lakes and coasts of Africa south of the Sahara.The body length is 63–75 cm (25–30 in). The adult is very distinctive in appearance with a mostly brown body and large, powerful, black wings. The head, breast, and tail of African Fish Eagles are snow white, with the exception of the featherless face, which is yellow. The eyes are dark brown in colour. The hook-shaped beak, ideal for a carnivorous lifestyle, is yellow with a black tip. The plumage of the juvenile is brown in colour, and the eyes are paler compared to the adult. The feet have rough soles and are equipped with powerful talons in order to enable the eagle to grasp slippery aquatic prey.

Sanford's Sea

Sanford's Sea

Flaying Animal | Haliaeetus sanfordi | Bird kind of eagle and very most. The Sanford's Sea Eagle was discovered by and named after Dr Leonard C. Sanford, a trustee for the American Museum of Natural History. The first description was by Ernst Mayr in 1935. It can reach a length between 70 and 90 cm (28-36 in) and a weight between 1.5 and 2.7 kg (3.3-6 lbs). The wingspan is between 165 and 185 cm (65-73 in). It is the only large predator on the Solomon Islands. The eagles inhabits coastal forests and lakes up to an altitude of about 1500 m.

Haliaeetus pelagicus Steller

Haliaeetus pelagicus Steller

Flying Animal | Haliaeetus pelagicus Steller | Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) is one of the largest of the sea and fish eagles of the genus Haliaeetus .These large blackish-brown birds have an enormous, strongly arched yellow bill . The feathers on the shoulders, tail and legs are white , and females are generally the larger sex .The relationships of Steller's Sea-eagle are not completely resolved. mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data tentatively suggests that this species's ancestors diverged early in the colonization of the Holarctic by sea eagles. This is strongly supported by morphological traits such as the yellow eyes, beak, and talons shared by this species and the other northern sea-eagles, the White-tailed and Bald Eagles, and biogeography. It is unique among all sea eagles in having a yellow bill even in juvenile birds, and possessing 14, not 12, rectrices. The skull (at about 14.6 cm (5.7 in)) and bill are the largest of any eagle and comparable in size to the largest Old World vultures, the biggest accipitrids.

Haliaeetus leucogoster

Haliaeetus leucogoster

Flaying Animal | Haliaeetus leucogoster | Pallas's Sea Eagle | Band-Tailed Fish Eagle | It has a light brown hood over a white face. The wings are dark brown and the back rufous, darker underneath. The tail is black with a wide, distinctive white stripe. Underwings have a white band. Juveniles are overall darker with no band on the tail. It measures 72–84 cm (28–33 in) in length with a wingspan of 180–215 cm (71–85 in). Females, at 2.1-3.7 kg (4.6-8.2 lbs), are slightly larger than males, at 2-3.3 kg (4.4-7.3 lbs). Its diet consists primarily of large freshwater fish.