| 11. | Raptorial birds in general tend to have large, conspicuous nests which may make them easier for a hunting owl to locate.
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| 12. | Among native raptorial birds, only larger eagles and similarly sized great horned owls can regularly outmatch this large and powerful hawk.
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| 13. | Due to the potential danger to themselves and their offspring, almost every other type of raptorial bird readily mobs golden eagles.
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| 14. | Probably few of the Raptorial birds, with the exception of the Eagles, are more formidable or more sanguinary in disposition ."
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| 15. | The main predators of the nyala are lion, leopard and Cape hunting dog, while baboons and raptorial birds hunt for the juveniles.
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| 16. | Shortly thereafter, DDT, originally used to combat malaria, and its metabolites were shown to cause population-level effects in raptorial birds.
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| 17. | There are exceptions to this, however, when particularly bold, large raptorial birds seemingly range too far into a pair s home range.
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| 18. | The great horned owl is one of the earliest nesting birds in North America, often laying eggs weeks or even months before other raptorial birds.
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| 19. | Perhaps the most formidable raptorial birds that the golden eagle co-exist with are the large northern " Haliaeetus " sea or fish eagles.
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| 20. | The "'cinereous vulture "'( " Aegypius monachus " ) is a large raptorial bird that is distributed through much of Eurasia.
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