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Across
  1. 3. A group of large, carrion-eating birds which were all classified by scientists with the raptors.
  2. 5. The claw of a bird of prey.
  3. 6. A rapid and irreversible learning process that occurs soon after a bird is hatched. During imprinting a bird learns to recognize its parents and identify with them. If it associates with humans during this period, it will identify with people.
  4. 8. eagle a large bird with a white head and neck that lives in North America and is the national bird of the USA.
  5. 9. To glide without flapping the wings on thermals or updrafts.
  6. 12. a small bird of prey that kills smaller animals for food
  7. 14. To spread the wings over dead prey in order to guard it.
Down
  1. 1. The wings-closed, high-velocity dive used by falcons to catch their prey from above.
  2. 2. A group of migrating birds of prey soaring upward on rising air currents. The spiraling shape of the birds suggests boiling liquid in a kettle.
  3. 4. The male of a hawk or falcon. The term is based on the Latin word for "third," and stems from the fact that male hawks and falcons are usually smaller than the female, often by roughly one-third.
  4. 7. A leather cap that covers a raptor’s eyes. Its function is to keep the bird calm and quiet.
  5. 8. A young bird of prey old enough to leave the nest but too young to fly.
  6. 10. A term synonymous with BIRD OF PREY and applied to eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, owls, and the osprey. Scientists apply it to vultures as well.
  7. 11. a bird that kills other birds and animals for food and can be trained to hunt
  8. 13. To shed old feathers and grow new ones.