Bird Watching (UK)

FLYING RAPTORS

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MERLIN (FLYING) ✔Short very pointed wings ✔Medium, square ended tail ✔Dashing and agile, very fast flight KESTREL (FLYING) ✔Long, (slightly fingered) pointed wings ✔Long rounded tail ✔Hovers. Direct and flicky-winged flight SPARROWHAW­K (FLYING) ✔Short, blunt tipped wings ✔Long, narrow-based, square tail ✔Flap-flap-glide flight style

GOSHAWK (FLYING) ✔Broad, blunt-tipped wings, bulging in secondarie­s, narrow at tip ✔Medium, broad based, rounded tail ✔Flap-flap-glide (slower flaps than much smaller Sparrowhaw­k)

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