Hawk

Hawks are a group of medium-sized diurnal birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Hawks are widely distributed and vary greatly in size.

• The subfamily Accipitrinae includes goshawks, sparrowhawks, sharp-shinned hawks and others. This subfamily are mainly woodland birds with long tails and high visual acuity. They hunt by dashing suddenly from a concealed perch.
• In the Americas, members of the Buteo group are also called hawks; this group are called buzzards in other parts of the world. Generally, buteos have broad wings and sturdy builds. They are relatively larger-winged, shorter-tailed and fly further distances in open areas than accipiters. Buteos descend or pounce on their prey rather than hunting in a fast horizontal pursuit,More info:wiki

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#10    Adopt Our Red-tailed Hawks!,More info:lindsaywildlife

In the wild, you’ll find these majestic hawks perched at the top of telephone poles and extra-tall trees. Red-tailed hawks like Fire and Rufous love to eat mice and snakes.

Fire became habituated to humans, which left her too vulnerable to thrive in the wild. Rufous collided with something when he was just a year old. The accident resulted in an injured left wing, leaving Rufous unable to survive in the wild.

#9   How the life of Hawk could be similar to ours,More info:steemit

Hawk. One of the most familiar day hunting birds of our country. Eyes , square trail, groove lip feature is its body feature. At one time, many hawkers are hunting for small birds and other small animals. This practice is particularly popular in the Middle East. They still play hawks. A news release some days ago, “A Saudi prince is flying over the sky with 80 hawks”.

Hawk is very skilled hunter. To climb up a lot, suddenly folding the wings and clapping the flying waterpipe or other birds. Their speed is very fast, they can speed increases up to 180 kilometers (112 miles) per hour, which is the fastest among the birds. It was the most popular, as long as the kings and kings people were attracted to such thing.

#8   Cooper’s Hawk,More info:thespruce

The Cooper’s hawk and its closely related accipiter cousin, the sharp-shinned hawk, can be one of the most difficult birds of prey to identify. Swift and agile, this raptor is a cunning predator that can be found not only in forested areas but also in yards and suburban areas. Because this member of the Accipitridae bird family is so widespread, birders should learn to identify it properly so they can recognize it easily, and this fact sheet has everything a birder needs to do just that.

#7    When Red-Shouldered Hawks Arrive, You’ll Hear them First and Loudest,More info:baynature

Bird nesting, anybody will tell you, is a spring and summer event. And it makes sense that many birds nest when grass grows, branches bud, and bugs emerge. But to mangle a notorious quote, the noisiest nesting season I ever heard was December in the San Francisco Bay Area. And the noisiest creatures in my creekside San Anselmo neighborhood that December were not the songbirds but rather red-shouldered hawks.

Red-shouldered hawks are medium-sized raptors of California’s riparian and urban forests. Adult redshoulders (both male and female) boast black-and-white wings and tail and a handsome rust-colored breast that melds into fine rust and whitish horizontal lines lower on the body. The juvenile redshoulder plumage is a softer version of its parents’ colors with no rust in the breast. One field mark sets the California redshoulders apart from all other raptors: a distinct white crescent near the tip of each wing.

#6   Hawk hides from Hurricane Harvey in taxi, refuses to leave,More info:IBTimes UK

 

#5   Hungry hawk keeps leaving dead pigeons for disgusted bank staff,More info:nypost

 

# 4    Short-tailed hawk,More info:wikipedia

 

#3   Odds are a hawk won’t steal your pet, but you should still be cautious,More info:theverge

A hawk hunting for house pets in the kempt lawns of suburbia sounds like the making of an urban legend, but the tale has, in recent decades, become a staple of local news. In 2011 a hawk plucked two small dogs from their Boston neighborhood and dropped them from the sky, inflicting serious injuries. A different hawk nabbed a Pomeranian from its home in Beech Island, South Carolina back in 2013; the 10-year-old rescue didn’t survive. And then there’s the case of the great horned owl, that in 1995, reportedly feasted on the pets of Greenville, Maine.

Evening news packages follow predictable beats: a red-eyed middle-aged man or woman, the still photograph of their diminutive family pet, and a cool baritone voiceover: “A large hawk had a small dog for lunch — and your pet could be next!”

#2    All About the Red-Tailed Hawk,More info:grit

Humans have been fascinated with birds of prey — eagles, hawks, falcons, owls — for thousands of years. We admire their gracefulness in flight and their skill as hunters. We have even trained some of them to hunt for us. Of all the birds of prey in North America, there are few more widespread or familiar than the red-tailed hawk.

Red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) belong to the buteos group (Latin for a type of hawk or falcon), which are large hawks with broad wings designed for soaring. They are commonly found along woodland edges and in open fields. These hawks primarily feed on small and medium-sized mammals and reptiles, although if the opportunity arises, they also will prey on birds, bats and insects. The other major group is called accipiters (Latin for hawk), which are smaller and faster than the buteos, having more rounded wings and long rudderlike tails that allow them to maneuver between trees. The accipiters are mostly inhabitants of the forests, where they feed primarily on birds.

#1   hawk,More info:frugalstudent

 

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