photographs by Douglas Herr
Accipitriformes: Accipitridae

White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus)
A buoyant flier over open fields in the California central valley, north through coastal Oregon, and east to Texas.
Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus)
A graceful summer resident of the central plains, wintering south of the United States. Its diet includes snakes, grasshoppers, lizards and other small reptiles.

Everglades National Park Florida

Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus)
several photographs
Bald Eagle (Haleatus leucocephalus)
several photographs
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)
A woodland hawk, about the size of a jay, which breeds as far north as Alaska and northern Canada.

Marin County California

Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)
Several photographs
Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
several photographs
Harris' Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), captive

California Hawking Club

Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)
A buteo of riparian woodlands
Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus)
common in eastern North America and a rare migrant on the west coast

Marin County California

Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni)
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamicensis)
Several photographs
Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis), captive
Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus), captive
Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos)

Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax), captive

California Hawking Club

all photographs Copyright (C) Douglas Herr
last updated 01 December 2011

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