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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: Birds That Prey!
Description: Zeka Glucs, Ph.D., Director, Predatory Bird Research Group, University of California, Santa Cruz
Should we foster the existence of birds that prey within our civilization?
There are 557 species of birds that prey in our world.  Each of these species has found a unique way to get along in nature.  Â
Carl Linnaeus, who went about organizing just about everything in nature, organized all the birds into orders, genera, and species.  He then placed all the birds that prey into a single order, which he called Accipitres, and then subdivided this group into four genera...