Do you have a favourite raptor?

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Boru

I have three:

Extant:  The harpy eagle. Looks like a hawk trying to be an owl and just missing.  One of the largest living eagles.  Eats sloths and monkeys.



Extinct:  Haast's eagle. This 35lb bird was able to take down a 250lb moa, and may have occasionally preyed on humans. Became extinct early in the 15th century after the Maori hunted the moa to extinction.



Literary:  Lancre wowhawk, or lappet-faced worrier. 

Fewer birds could sit more meekly than the Lancre wowhawk, or lappet-faced worrier, a carnivore permanently on the lookout for the vegetarian option. It spent most of its time asleep in any case, but when forced to find food it tended to sit on a branch out of the wind somewhere and wait for something to die. When in the mews the worriers would initially perch like other birds and then, talons clamped to the pole, doze off peacefully upside down.
Hodgesaargh bred them because they were found only in Lancre and he liked the plumage, but all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a
slingshot. 

Boru