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[Witis]

What about birds of prey, birds that prey on other birds, would you eat eagles. falcons, osprey, and other large raptors?

I would try them, but like here in Louisiana, shooting eagles are illegal. However, vultures... you can forget about.

Regarding birds of prey, unlike most birds, the female is usually larger than the male:"Sexual dimorphism in birds can be manifested in size or plumage differences between the sexes. Sexual size dimorphism varies among taxa with males typically being larger, though this is not always the case i.e. birds of prey and some species of flightless birds." - wiki. Moreover many species of birds including raptors mate for life. Of key significance is that the lower raptors have diets focusing on small mammals, reptiles, and fish where as the top raptors predominantly target other birds.

Kites, harriers, buzzards, and owls:
"Fish make up 99% of the osprey's diet." - wiki
Kites seem to focus on insects, small mammals and reptiles, and rarely eat other birds, although they have been known to steal food from other birds (cleptoparasitism).
Most harriers seem to focus on deit of small mammals.
Common Buzzards target small mammals.
"Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish." - wiki
Vultures feed mainly on carrion.
Condors are often included as vultures, although I don't view them as raptors.

By contrast many of the eagles, hawks, and falcons specialise in avian prey.
Eagles:
The golden eagle is a "diurnal predator of medium-sized birds and mammals" - wiki
"Wahlberg's Eagle hunts reptiles, small mammals and birds" -wiki
Although "The bald eagle is an opportunistic feeder which subsists mainly on fish" - wiki

Hawks:
"The Eurasian sparrowhawk is a major predator of smaller woodland birds" - wiki
"Like all accipiters (a group of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae, many of which are named as goshawks and sparrowhawks), the tiny hawk feeds primarily on birds."
Although 'Hawking is a feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air. The term “hawking” comes from the similarity of this behavior to the way hawks take prey in flight, although, whereas raptors may catch prey with their feet, hawking is the behavior of catching insects in the bill.' - wiki

Falcons:
Merlins (pigeon hawk in the U.S.) "actually capture most prey in the air, and will "tail-chase" startled birds. Throughout its native range, the Merlin is one of the most able aerial predators of small to mid-sized birds" - wiki
Many species of Hobbys typically have an avian diet.
"The Sooty Falcon eats mainly birds" - wiki
Peregrine falcon (duck hawk in the U.S.) - The fastest member of the animal kingdom "The peregrine falcon feeds almost exclusively on medium-sized birds such as pigeons and doves, waterfowl, songbirds, and waders" - wiki
Finally the relatively unknown Gyrfalcon is known to hunt the smaller Peregrine falcon and its "avian prey can range in size from redpolls to geese and can include gulls, corvids, smaller passerines, waders, and other raptors" - wiki

As land predators usually have no need to target each other due to the widespread availability of herbivorous prey, birds that specialise in avian prey represent somewhat of an anomaly that is reminiscent of komodo dragons, fish, and orcas. A feeding regime that centres on targeting weaker avian species verges on cannibalism and might be quite offensive as humans do not usually consume each other or other primates.

Would you eat all birds, or only the raptors to free the birds? Also which vultures would you avoid eating, all vultures or just the condors?