White-tailed Hawk

Description:

Averaging 21–23 in (53–58 cm) in length with a wing span of around 4 ft (1.2 m),[1] the super White-tailed Hawk is a large, stocky buteo hawk. Adult birds are grey above and white below and on the rump, with faint pale grey or rufous barring. The short tail is white with a narrow black band near the end that is conspicuous in flight. A rusty-red shoulder patch is just as characteristic when the bird is sitting with wings closed. The wings are dark above, admixed with grey near the bases of the blackish primary remiges. The underwing is whitish, with indistinct brownish barring on the underwing coverts that extends onto the flanks and thighs. The iris is hazel, the cere is pale green, the beak is black with a horn-colored base, and the feet are yellow with black talons.

Habitat:

Spotted during a bird show in Berkel en Rodenrijs, Netherlands