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    Animals

    Michał Jazłowiecki, MCS


    10 czerwca 2021

    1 Birds of prey • Sharp talons

    1.1 Vocabulary • Wide, rather blunt-ended wings with wingspan


    over 6 meters, exceeding 8 meters for some spe-
    Bird of prey, raptor — A bird that kills and eats small
    cies
    birds and animals. Carnivorous bird. Predatory
    bird.
    • Tails usually in form of isosceles trapezium or
    Scavenger — An animal eating already dead organisms. kite

    Talon — A sharp nail on the foot of a bird which it uses • Soar through the air on convection currents2
    when hunting animals. Claws of birds of prey.

    Soar — To rise high in the air while flying without mo-


    • Excellent vision
    ving the wings or using power.
    • Sexual dimorphism
    Diurnal animal — An animal that is active during day-
    time and sleeps during the night.
    1.3 Species
    Nocturnal animal — An animal that is active during
    nighttime and sleeps during daylight. • Diurnal birds of prey include buzzards3 , con-
    dors4 , eagles5 , falcons and falconets6 , hawks7 ,
    Crepuscular animal — An animal that is active main- harriers8 , kestrels9 , kites10 , ospreys11 , secretary
    ly during twilight.1 birds12 , serpent-eagles and snake-eagles13 , sparro-
    whawks14 , New World vultures15 , Old World vul-
    Twilight — A time before sunrise and after sunset when tures16 .
    upper atmosphere lightens up the lower atmosphere
    and earth. • Nocturnal birds of prey include mostly two owl fa-
    milies — barn owls17 and typical owls18 .
    1.2 Main features
    • Crepuscular birds of prey — some owls are both
    • Strong, sharp, hooked beak nocturnal and crepuscular (usually matinal).

    1 Crepuscular animals can be further divided into matinal animals (or matitinal animals) and verspertine animals denoting

    those active during sundawn and sundusk respectively.


    2 Other birds (like pelicans and storks), which aren’t raptors, also soar.
    3 Polish: myszołowy
    4 Polish: kondory; scavengers
    5 Polish: orły
    6 Polish: sokoły
    7 Polish: jastrzębie; not all birds with hawk in their names belong here, for example nighthawk (Polish: lelek ) is a nocturnal

    bug-hunting bird
    8 Polish: błotniaki
    9 Polish: sokoły
    10 Polish: myszołowy, kanie
    11 Polish: rybołów
    12 Polish: sekretarze
    13 Polish: gadożery
    14 Polish: krogulce
    15 Polish: kondory; more closely related to storks than to Old World vultures; scavengers
    16 Polish: sępy; scavengers
    17 Polish: (sowy) płomykówki
    18 Polish: sowy, puchacze (eg. Gold Eagle Owl), puszczyki (eg. Tawny Owl)

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