The pointiest birds in the wild blue yonder finally get their due! Join us to learn all of these lethal birds killer secrets, and to discover their hidden softer sides. Some use teamwork! Some keep pets!
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[Definition]
[Trivia Question]
Alkyl mercury in goshawks
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10646-013-1128-z
[Fact Off]
Bald eagle cyanobacteria toxin mystery
https://www.livescience.com/eagle-killing-mystery-disease-solved.html
https://www.inverse.com/science/mystery-behind-mass-bald-eagle-deaths-solved
Screech owls & threadsnakes
https://www.audubon.org/news/what-would-screech-owl-want-blind-snake
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4218201?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Leptotyphlops_dulcis/
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/eastern-screech-owl
[Ask the Science Couch]
Harris’s hawks (social raptors)
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Harriss_Hawk/overview
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/harriss-hawk
[Butt One More Thing]
Anthrax in raptor cloacas
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17347404/