Hawking, or hawking insects, is the primary feeding strategy for some birds, including most typical nightjars and some Old World flycatchers, monarch flycatchers, and tyrant flycatchers. This article is about the bird For the aircraft see Gloster Nightjar. The Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae is a large family of small Passerine Birds restricted to the Old World. The monarch flycatchers, Monarchidae, are a family of Birds Well-known forms included here are boatbills monarch flycatchers paradise-flycatchers and the Magpie-lark The tyrant flycatchers ( Tyrannidae) are a family of Passerine Birds which occur throughout North and South America, but are mainly Many other species, such as the honeyeaters of Australasia, hawk insects as their main source of nutrition or a supplement to their usual sources. The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family of small to medium sized birds most common in Australia and New Guinea, Australasia is a Region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring Islands in the Pacific
The term comes from the similarity of this behaviour to the way hawks take prey in flight, although, unlike most hawks, birds hawking insects do not catch their prey with their feet. The term hawk can be used in several ways In strict usage in Europe and Asia, to mean any of the Species in the Subfamily Typically, a bird that is hawking will watch for prey from a suitable perch. When it spies potential prey, the bird will chase it and catch it in its beak, then return to the perch or sometimes to a different perch. Anatomy Stegosaurus --> Beaks can vary significantly in size and shape from species to species Prey that is very small relative to the bird, such as gnats, may be consumed immediately while in flight, but larger prey, such as moths, are usually brought back to a perch before being eaten. GNAT is a free-software Compiler for the Ada programming language which forms part of the GNU Compiler Collection. A moth is an Insect closely related to the Butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera.
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