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     The eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) is a 66 to 71 cm long bird of prey with showy plumes, large golden-yellow eyes, and reddish fawn plumage mottled with dark burel.      It is the largest and most powerful of the Iberian nocturnal raptors.      In the image we find it in its watchtower, surrounded by the characteristic shrubs of the Mediterranean forest where it lives: pine, kermes oak, gorse, rockrose and mountain hay. This image won first prize in the 2005 Pallarés […]

The Northern Goshawk: the pirate of the wilderness      With that name that heads the title of this article, Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente called the Northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), the most ferocious and fearsome hunter among the birds of prey in our fauna. Master in surprise attack, it is especially fast and precise because it has a size and power that allow it to capture a wide variety of species such as squirrels, hares, rabbits, corvids, pigeons, partridges, starlings, thrushes, […]

The sad end of the common Buzzard. December 5, 2005 Last Sunday, December 5, 2005, I was in La Gola (at the exact point where the waters of the Júcar and Albaida rivers meet). He had set up a hide next to the river to photograph the wagtails, the plovers, the sandpipers…     The morning passed calmly and, within a few minutes, I was already enjoying my hobby of capturing images of the natural world. Suddenly, the imposing figure of one […]