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the largest of the North American Buteos ...
Variable brown plumage, yellow base to beak, yellow legs and inconspicuous and ...
The Red-tailed Hawk is one of the most widely distributed hawks in the Americas.
This was quite a light-colored individual.
Likely the most commonly seen hawk in North America.
Translucent crescents near the wing tips and heavily barred tails aid in ...
These birds' tails are quite long by Buteo ...
The Steppe Buzzard is a north easterly subspecies of the Common Buzzard & very ...
Medium sized raptor, about 50cm in length, and extremely variable in ...
This Buzzard is a medium-sized broad-winged bird of prey, reaching some 100 to ...
Brown colored, white belly covered with dark brown spotting and a ...
Large and imposing brown raptor, almost the size of a smaller eagles, with a ...
Adults have brownish heads, reddish chests, and pale bellies with reddish bars.
This photo was taken after the bird was released after having been rescued and ...
I was very happy to see this healthy hawk flying by after I had just found the ...
This bird was perched in an open spot, observing everything around while ...
It is also known as the grasshopper or locust hawk, as it is very fond of these ...
A dark border along the inner leading edge of the wing, the patagial bar, is a ...
We spotted three red-shouldered hawks during our Christmas Bird Count. The ...
Large raptor species with black, white, and brown marking on its back, a brown ...
A dark border along the inner leading edge of the wing, the patagial bar, is a ...
Identification of this immature hawk, that had been flying over my front yard, ...
Dark brown plumage, with a white belly, with a red-tail. The bill is relatively ...
Dark brown plumage, with a white belly, with a red-tail. The bill is relatively ...
-legged posture, "rete mirabile," to prevent heat loss, as it was somewhat ...
The Swainson's Hawk is a raptor, slightly smaller than a Red-tailed Hawk (
These photos were taken with a point-and-shoot camera through a birding ...
Large raptor species with black, white, and brown marking on its back, a brown ...
Large raptor species with black, white, and brown marking on its back, a brown ...
This raptor was perched in a high tree surveying a marsh area.
This hawk was stalking a hispid cotton rat and I was able to photograph it just ...
This hawk landed on a tree top in the middle of a field for a short period, ...
This red-shouldered hawk has staked out a territory near a pond and can be seen ...
This is a medium sized hawk with a beautiful red breast and shoulders as an ...
are quite long by Buteo standards, are ...
This hawk was eyeing my bird feeder this morning, but then flew off.
On two successive days, I came across the remnants of what must have been an ...
I had spotted a hawk at the start of a nature walk and then when I was leaving ...
This hawk was quite focused on a rodent that it had tracked. Even though people ...