A Field Guide to Hawks of North AmericaThis guide includes all 39 species of North American hawks and other diurnal raptors, including eagles, falcons, and vultures. Color paintings and photographs show each species in various color morphs and plumages, which are aso described in detail. |
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ADULT FEMALE adult male adult plumage American Kestrel Annual molt appear Back and upperwing barring Basic beak belly band birds blue-gray breast breeding buffy buteo cere cheeks color COMMON BLACK-HAWK Cooper's Hawks coverts are dark creamy dark brown dark eye lines dark streaking dark tips darker dihedral dusky eagles falcons FERRUGINOUS HAWK flight feathers Glides with wings Gray Hawk grayish HAWK Pl head Kite lack leg feathers LIGHT-MORPH ADULT Mississippi Kite molt morph mottling mustache marks narrow pale narrow white NORTHERN HARRIER outer primaries overall dark paler patches raptors Red-tailed Hawk Rough-legged Hawk rufous wash secondaries Similar to adult STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION SUBADULT SUBSPECIES subterminal band SWAINSON'S HAWK tail bands tail feathers throat tip on perched trailing edge Turkey Vultures two-toned underparts undertail coverts underwing UNUSUAL PLUMAGES upperparts uppersides uppertail upperwing coverts usually white band White-tailed White-tailed Hawk whitish wide dark wing coverts wingbeats WINGSPREAD yellow