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Turkey Vulture |
family Cathartidae
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Turkey Vulture |
family Accipitridae
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White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus)
A buoyant flier over open fields in the California central valley, north through coastal Oregon, and east to Texas. Palo Alto, California |
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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 |
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Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) San Mateo County California |
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Bald Eagle (Haleatus leucocephalus) Everglades National Park Florida |
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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 |
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Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)
Several photographs |
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Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis)
A large, secretive hawk of the north and of the western mountains of North America. Denali National Park Alaska |
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Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), captive
A large, secretive hawk of the north and of the western mountains of North America. |
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Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)
A buteo of riparian woodlands Kern County, California |
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Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus)
Common in eastern North America, a rare migrant on the west coast Marin County, California |
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Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamicensis), immature
In western North America, most hawks seen soaring overhead are this bird. Immature Red-tails do not have a red tail. California |
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Harris' Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), captive |
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Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis), captive |
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Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) Denali National Park Alaska and Sunol California |
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Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax), captive |
family Falconidae
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Gyrfalcon (Falco rusticolus)
The largest of the North American falcons, rarely seen south of Canada. Denali National Park Alaska |
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Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus)
A pale brown falcon of the western plains, looking like a faded Peregrine Falcon but with black axillars ("wingpits"). Sunol, California |
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Saker Falcon (Falco cherrug), captive
(several photographs) A Eurasian falcon, popular with falconeers. |
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Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus), captive |
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Merlin (Falco columbaris)
A compact, uncommon falcon of the northern regions of North America.
Denali National Park Alaska |
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American Kestrel (Falco sparvarius), captive |
all photographs Copyright (C) Douglas Herr
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