A bird of prey (also called raptor) is a bird that mainly uses its claws (called talons) to seize prey.
They have strong sharp, hooked beaks and claws and have sharp eyesight.
Birds of prey | |
---|---|
Australasian osprey | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | |
Phylum: | |
Class: | |
Orders | |
They are not classified into one natural family or group. The behaviour evolved many times in different groups. This is an illustration of convergent evolution.
Those bird of prey that are active during the day (diurnal) are classified into five families in two orders. The orders are the Falconiformes and Accipitriformes.
Nocturnal birds of prey – the owls – are classified separately, as members of two families of the order Strigiformes.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Simple English article Bird of prey, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Simple English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.