Ferruginous Hawk Identification - All About Birds
WEBFerruginous Hawks are large Buteo hawks with relatively long wings and large heads. The wings narrow to form more pointed tips than is typical for other buteos.
Ferruginous hawk - Wikipedia
WEBThe ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis) is a large bird of prey and belongs to the broad-winged buteo hawks. An old colloquial name is ferrugineous rough-leg, [2] due to its similarity to the closely related rough-legged hawk (B. lagopus). The generic name buteo is Latin for 'buzzard'. [3]
Ferruginous Hawk - All About Birds
WEBFound in prairies, deserts, and open range of the West, the regal Ferruginous Hawk hunts from a lone tree, rock outcrop, or from high in the sky. This largest of North American hawks really is regal—its species name is —with a unique gray head, rich, rusty (ferruginous) shoulders and legs, and gleaming white underparts.
Ferruginous Hawk | Audubon Field Guide
WEBThis regal bird is the largest of our soaring Buteo hawks, a fitting raptor for the wide skies and windswept plains of the west. It soars with its broad wings held in a shallow V, and swoops down to catch ground squirrels, snakes, young jackrabbits, and …
Ferruginous Hawk - American Bird Conservancy
WEBThe Ferruginous Hawk occurs only in North America, from southwestern Canada through the western United States and into northern Mexico. It haunts arid, open country, including short-grass prairie, sagebrush, deserts with short vegetation, and nearby agricultural areas.
Ferruginous Hawk Life History - All About Birds
WEBFerruginous Hawks are open-country birds that breed in grasslands, sagebrush country, saltbush-greasewood shrublands, and edges of pinyon-juniper forests at low to moderate elevations. Their breeding habitat includes features …
Ferruginous hawk - The Raptor Center
WEBThe ferruginous hawk is the largest buteo in North America, with a length of 20 to 25 inches and a wingspan of 53 to 56 inches. These hawks have short, dark, hooked beaks and extremely long, yellow gapes that extend to below the eye.
Ferruginous Hawk - eBird
WEBLarge raptor of dry open country; light morph much more common than dark morph. Light adult distinctly rufous above with blue-gray flight feathers, white breast, and rufous barring on sides. Tail very pale with light rufous upperside.
Ferruginous Hawk - Tucson Audubon
WEBThe massive Ferruginous Hawk is a migrant from its breeding grounds in central Canada, western and central US, and even northern Arizona, and can be found regularly just outside of Tucson from October until about early March.
Ferruginous Hawk Fact Sheet – HawkWatch International
WEBFerruginous Hawks are birds of the West and the northern Great Plains, residing in open country. They favor vast expanses of Sagebrush prairie and grasslands in summer, but many move to agricultural or tilled areas in winter.
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