There Are Actually So Many Different Types of Raptors in the World

Name: There Are Actually So Many Different Types of Raptors in the World
Uploaded: 2025-05-06T02:47:46+00:00
Duration: 4 min 15 s
Channel: Wild Times at the San Diego Zoo
Description: Learn all about these amazing birds from animal trainers at the San Diego Zoo.

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Learn all about these amazing birds from animal trainers at the San Diego Zoo.

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00:00Hi, my name is Stacy. I'm an animal trainer here at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park and today we're

00:09here at the Raptor Flight Safari. We're going to tell you all about these amazing birds.

00:19Our East African Crown Crane is Taji. She's a female crown crane and we've been working with

00:24her since she was just a little baby. In our Raptor Flight Safari, Taji gets to meet guests

00:30up close and personal. She's been here for many years and she loves to eat bugs. They're delicious.

00:40East African Crown Cranes have such long legs and big feet so that they can stir up waterways and get

00:49the edible vegetation and the bugs that they find there. Those big feet work just like paddles to stir

00:56up all of that mud and muck. She really likes to eat those bugs. They have these beautiful feathers on

01:03the tops of their heads that look an awful lot like hair and they got the name Crown Crane for

01:08that golden crest of feathers. But those are just modified feathers. They look really different up

01:15and they look really different up close.

01:17This is Hinkley. He's a milky eagle owl. They're an African species of owl. One of the largest species

01:30of owl on the planet. And he weighs a whopping three pounds. He's a very handsome fellow and he has a

01:39favorite thing in the world. You won't believe it. It's a rock. He loves this rock. He holds it with

01:45him at all times. So I brought it with him. He doesn't feel like holding it right now. Just

01:50just wanted to make sure that he was comfortable. These birds have silent flight. When they fly

01:55through the air, you won't hear a sound. They sneak right up on you. Now owls have a very unique look.

02:03You can tell an owl straight away just by looking right at their face. The shape of the feathers around

02:08their eyes is called the facial disc. It helps them to collect sound and directs that sound right back

02:15to their ears. So they can really hear what direction their prey is coming from. When they turn their

02:21head around, that gives them the opportunity to hear from all different directions as well. But of

02:28course, they can't turn their head all the way around. Just about three quarters of the way.

02:37An owl's eyes are huge. They take up three quarters of the space inside of his head. There's no room left

02:44for muscles to move them. That's why he turns his head so that he can see. Milky Eagle Owls are unique.

02:51They have a bare eyelid and that eyelid turns bright pink during breeding season. It's supposed to

02:57communicate that they're prepared to rear offspring. I think it's a good signal.

03:06At the Raptor Flight Safari, you'll get to hold a hawk right on your glove. You'll feel the breeze from his

03:13feathers right through your hair. His name is Spike and he's a Harris hawk. Harris hawks are unique

03:19because they're social. Most birds of prey are solitary. They're territorial. They keep all the

03:24resources for themselves. But Harris's hawks work together to take down a larger prey item than one

03:30bird could capture all alone. And they share that prey at the end of the day. They even have a nickname.

03:37They're called the wolves of the sky for their hunting techniques.

03:43We've provided you with these falconry gloves. That's what you need to wear when the hawk flies to

03:49you. You put the glove in front of you with your elbow bent. That way the hawk will land on the glove

03:55and not anywhere else. We'll place a small piece of food on your glove. You don't have to do a thing.

04:01Just stand still. Let the hawk land. And he takes care of all the work.

04:09Thanks for hanging out with us at the Raptor Flight Safari.

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