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The acid in a vulture’s stomach is really strong and this means they can ingest potentially harmful bacteria and even some diseases! Their ability to eat carcasses quickly and efficiently makes vultures super important in the ecosystem.

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When food is plentiful, Burrowing Owls stash food for a later date in ‘caches’. One cache in Saskatchewan in Canada (1997) contained more than 200 rodents.

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96% of breeding Cinereous Vulture pairs in Europe are found in Spain.

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Palm-nut Vultures are one of the very few birds of prey that regularly eats vegetable matter and are the only vulture species to have up to 50% of their diet made up of fruits such as Raffia palm.

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African Fish Eagles can perch for 85-95% of the day, swooping down onto prey (mostly fish) from a tree adjacent to water.

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The Striated Caracara is the most southerly nesting bird of prey. They nest in the Falkland Islands, Cape Horn and Tierra del Fuego.

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UK Kestrel populations have suffered a 38% decline in the last 20 years.

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Peregrine Falcons can be found on six of the seven continents but are not found in Antarctica.

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Egyptian Vultures have been observed in the wild using tools such as rocks to break open Ostrich eggs to eat them. Something that was originally thought to be a behaviour only seen by intelligent birds such as crows.

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Black-chested Buzzard-Eagles have nests made of sticks and these almost always located on isolated and inaccessible rock and canyon ledges.

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