Ferrunginous Hawk in Tree
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Ferrunginous Hawk in Tree
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
A Ferrunginous Hawk is a large, broad-winged hawk of the open, arid grasslands, prairie and shrub steppe country; it is endemic to the interior parts of North America. Used as a falconry bird in its native rangers also high above land, this largest of the North American Buteos and is often mistaken for an eagle due to its size, proportions, and behavior.
Among all the nearly thirty species of Buteo in the world, only the upland buzzard, B. hemilasius, of Asia averages larger in length and wingspan. The weight of the upland buzzard and ferruginous broadly overlaps and which of these two species is the heaviest in the genus is debatable. As with all birds of prey, the female ferruginous hawk is larger than the male, but there is some overlap between small females and large males in the range of measurements.
Adults have long broad wings and a broad gray, rusty, or white tail. The legs are feathered to the talons, like the rough-legged hawk. There are two color forms: Light morph birds are rusty brown on the upper parts and pale on the head, neck, and underparts with rust on the legs and some rust marking on the underwing. The upper wings are grey. The "ferruginous" name refers to the rusty color of the light-morph birds. Dark-morph birds are dark brown on both upperparts and underparts with light areas on the upper and lower wings.
This image was made on the north end of Loveland in northern Colorado on a sunny winter day shortly after sunrise.
Some digital effects were applied to this original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the FAA watermark.
Image copyright 2018 Jon Burch Photography
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January 15th, 2019
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