Хохлатая (тихоокеанская, австралийская)база/Pacific Bazza Or Crested Hawk Eating A Frog

Was On The Tractor And Saw The Hawk Swooping & Looks As If It Caught Something & It Seems To Have Landed On A Tree Branch. I moved cautiously under trees so as not to disturb the falcon & hopefully it does not see me. I saw it & slowly started photographing & videoing it. The earlier take was not well focused,having mosquitoes & march flies attack me. Pacific Bazza Rumoured To Imitate Calls Of Tree Frogs When Hunting Getting The Frogs To Return The Call Thus Locating The Frog. “This bird was historically most commonly known as the crested hawk, but Pacific baza is now the most frequently-used common name. It is often referred to as “cuckoo-hawk“ in Africa and “lizard-hawk“ in India.[12 The Pacific baza ranges across warmer and more humid parts of the Australasian realm, breeding in Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands and resident in East Timor.[1] In Australia, it is only found in areas where the coast is no further than 400
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