Photo: © Shutterstock.com/TashaBubo. Male kestrel Former British birdkeeper Jarrod Cotter looks at the kestrel, familiar for its ability to hover while hunting for prey THE kestrel is perhaps our most familiar bird of prey, because it is so frequently…
Photo: Graham Wellstead. Mica, Graham’s red-tailed hawk, out of the aviary and on the perch, ready to start training Just like her namesake, Mica the red-tailed hawk was always going to be special to Graham Wellstead. In the first of two…
Photo: is it something we said? The long-eared owl (pictured) and short-eared owl’s ears are, in fact, located on the side of the head and what we see on top is merely the ‘tufts’, which can be lowered and raised.…
Photo: Susie Kearley. Staff and volunteers give numerous visitor talks on owls and birds of prey throughout the day On a bright summer’s day, Susie Kearley and her husband took a trip to Cambridgeshire’s Raptor Foundation – which alongside caring…
Photo: © Shutterstock.com/Jim Cumming. Graham was delighted to be welcomed to Canada by a wild snowy owl When Graham Wellstead was met coming off an aeroplane in Canada by a snowy owl, it got him thinking about one of…
Photo: © Shutterstock.com/Through Christy’s Lens. Spectacled owl: the strong white ‘eyebrows’ emphasise the luminous yellow irises to produce an exaggeratedly penetrating stare. Bill Naylor introduces the spectacled owl, a beautiful if ferocious predator from the tropical regions of the New World. OUT of…
Photo: Laura Keens. Graham with a Harris hawk near the Cage & Aviary Birds offices. After a total lack of interest at first, he now calls it ‘both the best and worst thing that has happened to English falconry’. Following on…