Harlen's Hawk (dark morph)

Description:

Immature Harlan's hawks have dusky tails, rarely with any rufous colouring. In rare individuals, if there is any hint of rufous colouring, it is present as a pale wash. Roughly half of the adults will have at least some rufous colouring on their tails, typically as a band near the tip Harlan's hawks have many dark bands on their tails, with an especially bold subterminal tail band Harlan's hawk wingtips clearly do not reach as far as the end of their tails when perched dark and intermediate morph Harlan's hawks can be distinguished by the amount of mottling on its upperwing coverts: dark morphs lack this mottling the dark areas of Harlan's hawks are a blackish brown, lacking any warm rufous tones, except perhaps in the tail Harlan's hawks have variable amounts of white speckling, whilst red-tailed hawks have buff speckles

Habitat:

Harlan's hawks breed in Alaska and northwestern Canada, and winter in the western USA and on the southern Great Plains of North America. This very dark raptor has a marbled white, brown, and gray tail instead of rufous.