{"id":165,"date":"2008-08-29T13:54:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T11:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/raptor-silhouettes-the-solutions\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T13:54:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T11:54:40","slug":"raptor-silhouettes-the-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/general\/raptor-silhouettes-the-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptor Silhouettes: the solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently detected a growing unease among some birding factions on the Internet. Some have written to forums pleading for help, while others have gone straight to the point and have e-mailed me asking for the solution to the raptor silhouette competion available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/free-birding-downloads.html\" title=\"Birding In Spain raptor silhouettes competition\">this page at the BirdingInSpain.com main site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to reveal the answers.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to have a go yourself without cheating follow the link and read no further&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If, however, you are stumped, and there&#8217;s no harm in admitting it because it was a difficult test and as far as I recall no-one has got 20 out of the 22, read on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Honey Buzzard<\/p>\n<p>2. Black-winged Kite<\/p>\n<p>3. Red Kite<\/p>\n<p>4. Osprey<\/p>\n<p>5. Short-toed Eagle<\/p>\n<p>6. Goshawk<\/p>\n<p>7. Booted Eagle<\/p>\n<p>8. Eleonora&#8217;s Falcon<\/p>\n<p>9. Common Buzzard<\/p>\n<p>10. Peregrine<\/p>\n<p>11. Black Kite<\/p>\n<p>12. Hen Harrier<\/p>\n<p>13. Bonelli&#8217;s Eagle<\/p>\n<p>14. Montagu&#8217;s Harrier<\/p>\n<p>15. Golden Eagle<\/p>\n<p>16. Egyptian Vulture<\/p>\n<p>17. Marsh Harrier<\/p>\n<p>18. Hobby<\/p>\n<p>19. Sparrowhawk<\/p>\n<p>20. Common Kestrel<\/p>\n<p>21. Griffon Vulture<\/p>\n<p>22. Lammergeier<\/p>\n<p>Most difficulties were caused by numbers 2, 7, 8 and 12. Of course, true to the BirdingInSpain theme they are all raptors that can be seen in northeast Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Did you enjoy it? Was it worth my time? Would someone like another more difficult\/easier one?<\/p>\n<p>I await your comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently detected a growing unease among some birding factions on the Internet. Some have written to forums pleading for help, while others have gone straight to the point and have e-mailed me asking for the solution to the raptor silhouette competion available on this page at the BirdingInSpain.com main site. I&#8217;m about to reveal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-2F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}