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A bird that is a predator.

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A-C

Abdomen • Aberrant • Abmigration • Abrasion • Adult • Aerie• Airfoil • Air sac • Albino • Allopatric • Alula • Altricial • Antiphonal song "Arm" • Asynchronous hatching • Auricular • Auricular patch • Axillaries • Back • Bar • Barbule • Basic • Beak • Belly • Bib • Booted • Breast • Breeding plumage • Brood parasite • Bustle • Buzzard • Calendar year • Carpal • Carpal bar • Casque • Cere • Cheek • Chevrons • Chin • Cline • Colour morph • Commensalism • Commic terns • Commissure • Congeneric • Conspecific • Coverts • Crespuscular • Crest • Crissum • Crown • Crown patch • Cryptic • Culmen

D-J

Dewlap • Diagnostic • Dihedral • Dilute plumage • Ear tufts • Eclipse plumage • Egg tooth • Emargination • Endemic • Extant • Extinct • Extinct in the wild • Eye • Eye line • Eye ring • Eye stripe • Eye wattle • Face skin • Facial disk • Family • Feather fringe • Feral • Filoplume • Fingers • First seasons (first winter, summer, autumn) • Flanks • Fledgling • Flight feathers • Foot projection • Forecrown • Forehead • Foreneck • Forewing • Frons • Frontal shield • Gape • Gape flange • Glide • Gonys • Gonydeal angle • Gorget • Gular • Gular fluttering • Gular pouch • Habitat • Hackles • Hand • Hatchling • Hawk • Hibernation • Hindneck • Hood (Half-hood) • Hover • Hybrid • Immature (imm.) • Infraorder • Iridescence • Irruption • Isolating mechanisms • Juvenile (juv.) • Kite

L-O

Lamallae • Lappet • Lanceolate • Lateral throat stripe • Leading edge of wing • Leg • Leucistic • Lores • Malar stripe • Mandibles (upper and lower) • Mantle • Mask • Melanistic • Midwing-panel • "Mirror" • Monotypic • Morph • Moult • Moustache • Moustachial stripe • Nail • Nape • Nictitating membrane • Nomadic • Nominate subspecies • Non-breeding plumage • Non-passerine • Nostril • Notch • Nuchal collar • Nuchal cret • Nuptial • Occiput • Ocellus (pl. ocelli) • Operculum • Orbital • Orbital ring • Orbital skin • Order • Oscine • Osteology

P-S

Palmate • Panel • Parasite • Parasitic behaviour • Partial albinism • Partial migrant • Parvorder • Passerine • Patagium • Pelagic • Pellet • Piratic • Plumage • Plume • Polygamy • Polytypic • Post-juvenile • Postocular stripe • Powder-down • Precocial • Primary feathers • Primary patch • Primary projection • Raptor • Rectrix • Relict population • Rictal bristles • Roost • Rump • Scapular • Scavenger • Secondary feathers • Sedentary • Shaft • Shoulder • Size • Soar • Soft parts • Species (sp.) • Spectacles • Speculum • Spur • Striated • Subadult • Submoustachial stripe • Suboscine •Subspecies (spp.) • Subterminal band • Sulcus • Supercilium • Superciliary line • Superfamily • Supraloral • Synchronous hatching

T-W

Taiga • Tail corners • Tail streamer • Talons • Tapetum • Tarsus • Tertiary feathers) • Terminal band • Throat • Tibia • Tibiotarsus • Tomium • Tomial tooth • Torpidity • Totipalmate • Trailing edge of wing • Twitcher • Underparts • Undertail coverts • Upperparts • Uppertail coverts • Variety (var.) • Vent • Wattle • Precocial • "Window" • Wing bar • Wing coverts • Wing edging • Wing-panel • Wingload • Wing projection • Wingspan (WS)

X-Z

Young • Zygodactyl

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