moles, mice, young game birds, snakes and frogs, as well as carrion for food. Its head and facial expression are unusually eagle-like. It was common over Pal in winter, but bred in the hills of Galilee and rough mountainous places, so it was less conspicuous in summer. It is among the lists of abominations (see Lev 11:14 and Dt 14:13). It is notable that this is the real bird intended by Job to be used as that whose eye could not trace the path to the silver mine: “That path no bird of prey knoweth,