Slammer - Black-breasted Buzzard

Picking up a stone, ready for throwing. This species instinctively throw stones at emu eggs to break them open and eat the contents.
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2008

Interesting!

Very interesting, in fact. That's a fairly creative way to get a meal, and it also demonstrates tool usage.

Question: Are those the ends of jesses I see around his legs? Is this a bird used in raptor demos or presentations?

Thanks.

this photo is actually taken during a show. Slammer is used in the afternoon shows almost every day, she flies out uses the rock to break a plaster of paris 'emu' egg gets some food and flies back home again

There's only two species of bird that demonstrate this behaviour - the black-breasted buzzard in Australia and the Egyptian Vulture in Africa.