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        • 2020 Southern Cal
          • 2020-05-28 Cattle Call Brawley
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          • My 2019 Christmas Bird Count
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          • 2019-11-22~24 Late November Yard-birds
          • 2019-10-28 Monday Afternoon At Vendel Road
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          • 2019-09-06 – Friday at Border Field
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        • 2018 Southern Cal
          • 2018-12-22 Christmas Bird Count
          • 2018-12-17 La Jolla Cove
          • 2018-07-15 Sunday At The Cove And Other Places
          • 2018-05 More Moments With Yardbirds
          • 2018-04 A Few Moments With Yardbirds
          • 2018 Remembering My Poway Yardbirds
        • 2017 Southern Cal
          • 2017-10-27 A Week At Southeast County
          • 2017-08-11 Salton Sea Sunsets
          • 2017-08-07 Warner Valley With The SDNHM Team
          • 2017-07-22 Killdeer Chicks
          • 2017-06-17~20 Cottonwood Springs (Part 2)
          • 2017-06-17~20 Cottonwood Springs
          • 2017 June: Elf Owls In Riverside County
          • 2017 June in Joshua Tree National Park
          • 2017-06-01 Nesting at Border Field
          • 2017-05-28 Red Hill At The Salton Sea
          • 2017-05-23~27 Horse Thief Springs
          • 2017-05-17 Nesting Season At The Saltworks
          • 2017-05-15 South San Diego Bay
          • 2017-04-20 Salton Sea and Ramer Lake
          • 2017-04-20 Salton Sea: Bowles Road to Red Hill
          • 2017-04-19 Salton Sea at Bowles Road Overlook
          • 2017-04-19 With Round-Tailed Ground Squirrels
          • 2017-03-21 Poway Community Park
          • 2017-03-20 Monday’s Flowers At Anza-Borrego
          • 2017-01-17: A Great Day At The Salton Sea
        • 2016 Southern Cal
          • 2016 Final Mojave Excursion: Birds
          • 2016 Final Mojave Excursion: Mammals
          • 2016 – November Birds In The Mojave
          • 2016 November- Rodents in the Mojave
          • 2016-11-29 Tuesday At Cottonwood Spring
          • 2016-11-08~14: Camping In The Mojave
          • 2016-10-30 The Salton Sea & My New Nikon D5
          • 2016 – Early October Camping At Pinyon Wells
          • 2016-10-13 Pinyon Wells Critters
          • 2016-10-07 Joshua Tree Park: Birds Too!
          • 2016-08-30&31 Springs at Santa Rosa Mountain
          • 2016-08-28 Bird & Butterfly Garden
          • 2016-06-10, 24 Hours On Santa Rosa Mountain
          • 2016-06-04 I’m Baaaack!
          • 2016-04-05 Heading North (Before I Go East)
        • 2015 Southern Cal
          • 2015-11-14 Miramar Bonaparte’s Gulls
          • 2015-10-31 Salton Sea Southeast
          • 2015-08-19 Saltworks and Shorebirds
          • 2015-08-13 Santa Rosa Mountain
          • 2015-08-05 Saltworks
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          • 2015-04-28 Salton Sea
          • 2015-04-28 Ramer Lake
          • 2015-03-16 Oceanside Harbor
          • 2015-03-11 Julian to Mt. Laguna
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          • 2015-02-20 Ranchita to Borrego
          • 2015-02-15 Daley Ranch and Pamo Valley
          • 2015-02-01 Tijuana River Valley
          • 2015-01-27 Tijuana River Valley
        • 2014 Southern Cal
          • 2014-12-19 Santee Lakes
          • 2014-12-08 San Diego Botanic Gardens
          • 2014-12-04 Poway Creek Mergansers
          • 2014-11-30 Birds At Vendel Road
          • 2014-11-30 Poe Road Passerines
          • 2014-11-30 Cattle Call Park
          • 2014 Late November At The Salton Sea
          • 2014 Autumn In La Jolla
          • 2014-10-23 Autumn In Garner Valley
          • 2014-10-21 Poe Road And The Salton Sea
          • 2014 Mid-October At Old Mine Road In Ranchita
          • 2014-09-23 At The San Luis Rey River Mouth
          • 2014 At The Ramona Grasslands
          • 2014 Late July At The Salton Sea
          • 2014 Late June At Garner Valley
          • 2014 Early June On Santa Rosa Mountain
          • 2014-05-22 March Yard Birds
          • 2014 Early April In Tecolote Canyon
          • 2014-03-22 Lincoln’s Sparrows In My Yard
          • 2014-03-12 Mount Laguna & Lindo Lake
          • 2014-02-26 Tubb Canyon Trail
          • 2014-03-05 Birding At Border Field
          • 2014-02-14: A Visit To Chula Vista
        • 2013 Southern Cal
          • 2013-08-23 J-Street & Border Field
          • 2013-08-09 Agua Dulce Again
          • 2013-08-02 Border Field Again
          • 2013-07-24 Saltworks & Imperial Beach
          • 2013-06-24 Tijuana River Valley
          • 2013-06-15 Milk Ranch Road
          • 2013-06-13 Tijuana River Valley
          • 2013-06-06 Clark Dry Lake (Thrashers At Last!)
          • 2013-06-02 Santa Ysabel Reserves
          • 2013-05-29 Palomar Mountain Birds
          • 2013-05-21 Laguna Mountain Birds
          • 2013-05-17 Ramona Grasslands Again
          • 2013-05-15 Tijuana River Valley
          • 2013-05-11 Tijuana River Mouth
          • 2013-05-10 Iron Mountain Blues
          • 2013-05-08 Lake Hodges Passerines
          • 2013-05-03 TJRV Dairy Mart Ponds
          • 2013-05-01 Santa Margarita River Trail
          • 2013-05-05 Nesting at Safari Park
          • 2013-04-29 Coast To Crest Wildlife Corridor
          • 2013-04-27 Borrego’s Clark Dry Lake Birds
          • 2013-04-24 Border Field Sanderlings
          • 2013-04-21 Zoo Safari
          • 2013-04-13 Spring In The Ramona Grasslands
          • 2013-04-04 Imperial Beach Swallows
          • 2013-04-04 Border Field
          • 2013 March In South San Diego County
          • 2013-03-26 Thrasher Hunt
          • 2013-03-24 Surfbirds At The Mission Bay Jetty
          • 2013-03-23 Around Poway
          • 2013-02-15 Balboa Park Flora
          • 2013-01-31 Imperial Beach Hot Spots
          • 2013-01-22 Bayfront Park In Chula Vista
          • 2013-01-20 San Diego Safari Park
        • 2012 Southern Cal
          • 2012-12-27 Margaret Fleming Nature Trail
          • 2012-12-14 Poway Snipe Hunt
          • 2012-11-14 Osprey vs. Ravens in Poway
          • 2012-09-12 Santa Rosa Mountain in September
          • 2012-09-08 Equestrians at Border Field
          • 2012-08-29 Exploring Lake Hodges
          • 2012-08-23 Late Summer On Santa Rosa Mountain
          • 2012-08-01 Lindo Lake Solitary Strike-Out
          • 2012-08 August Yardbirds
          • 2012-06-16 A Pelagic Trip With Dave Povey
          • 2012-06-10 A Weekend in Idyllwild
          • 2012-06-03 San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park
          • 2012-05-17 San Diego Zoo in Balboa Park
          • 2012-05-06 Zoo’s Safari Park Again
          • 2012 Poway Kites In April
          • 2012-04-28 Shameless Zoo Captures
          • 2012-04-24 Chula Vista Again
          • 2012-04 April Stuff In My Poway Yard
          • 2012-04 The 8th and 11th at La Jolla Cove
          • 2012-04-04 Memories of Mussey Grade in Ramona
          • 2012-03-30 Borrego Turkey Shoot
          • 2012-03-24 Poway Downy Woodpecker
          • 2012-03-24 Borrego Springs Hawk Watch
          • 2012-03-19 La Jolla Cove
          • 2012-03-11 Torrey Pines Gnatcatchers
          • 2012-03-02 Cormorants at the La Jolla Cove
          • 2012-02-16 La Jolla Cove
          • 2015-01-27 Tijuana River Valley
          • 2012-02-16 Chula Vista Bayfront Park
          • 2012-07-13 A ‘Ruff” Day At Famosa Slough
        • 2011 Southern Cal
          • 2011-10-13 At The Salton Sea
      • Northern California
        • 2020-10-17 First Stop, Dirty Socks Spring
        • 2019 Northern Cal
          • 2019-08-20 Tuesday On The Shores Of Mono Lake
          • 2019-08-12 Eureka and Points South
          • 2019-08-12 Day Two in Crescent City
          • 2019-08-10 Crescent City
            • 2019-08-09 Brookings and the Smith River Mouth
          • 2019-07-31 Colusa NWR
          • 2019-07-29 Piedras Blancas Oystercatchers
          • 2017-07-29 Morro Bay
          • 2019-07-28 San Luis Obisbo Guillemot
          • 2019-01-26 Merced National Wildlife Reserve
          • 2019-01-21 Sacramento and Colusa Refuges
        • 2017 Northern Cal
          • 2017-09-20 Santa Barbara and Home
          • 2017-09-17 Sunday in Morro Bay
          • 2017-09-16 San Simeon and North
          • 2017-09-15 Sacramento Valley Trifecta
          • 2017-09-12 Crescent City To Klamath River
          • 2017-07-19&20 Heading Home From The Sierras
          • 2017-07-16 Mammoth Lakes Birds
          • 2017-07-15 Tioga Pass And “Common” Birds
          • 2017-07-13 Eastern Sierra Scenery
          • 2017-07-12 Sonora Pass And Beyond
          • 2017-07-12 Bridgeport Reservoir
          • 2017-07-12 Mono Lake Birds
          • 2017-07-08 Woodpecker Chase
          • 2017-07-07 and 09 Lower Rock Creek
          • Collisions In The Eastern Sierra
        • 2016 Northern Cal
          • 2016-05-08 Sunday In The Eastern Sierras
          • 2016-05-07 Stuck In Modoc Mud (With a Poem)
          • 2016-05-06 Tule Lake
          • 2016-04-23 Saturday Carson City to Tule Lake
          • 2016-04-22 Friday’s Drive Through The Storm
          • 2016-04-21 Lone Pine and The Alabama Hills
          • 2016-04-20 Dirty Socks Spring
        • 2015 Northern Cal
          • 2015-06-18 So Endeth The Journey
          • 2015-06-17 King City to Morro Bay
          • 2015-06-16 Fort Ross to King City
          • 2014 Early August With Birds at June Lake
          • 2015-06-15 Eureka to Fort Ross
          • 2015-06-14 Oregon Into California
        • 2014 Northern Cal
          • 2014 June Lakes and White Mountain
          • 2014 Early August With Birds at June Lake
          • 2014 Early August Around Mono Lake
          • 2014 Early August With Eastern Sierras Mammals
      • Oregon
        • 2019 Oregon
          • 2019-08-18 Klamath Basin
          • 2019-08-17 Klamath Veterans Park
          • 2019-08-07 Siskiyou Summit
        • 2017 Oregon
          • 2017-09-10 Mail Boat Ride (Plus Pistol River)
          • 2017-09-09 South to Gold Beach Oregon
          • 2017-09-08 South From Bandon Oregon
          • 2017-09-07 Central Oregon Coast
          • 2017-09-06 Wednesday And Back On The Road
          • 2017-08-31 Abert Lake To Klamath Falls
          • 2017-08-29 On The Road To Malheur NWR
          • 2017-09-01 Crater Lake Trip
        • 2016 Oregon
          • 2016-05-05 Klamath Falls, Veterans
          • 2016-05-04 Wednesday,Turning to Home
          • 2016-05-02 Monday on the Siskiyou Summit Road
          • 2016-04-29 Ken Denman and Touvelle
          • 2016-04-28 Upper Applegate Valley
          • 2016-04-24 Lower Klamath Basin
          • 2016-04-24 Klamath Falls Gulls
        • 2015 Oregon
          • 2015-06-14 Oregon Into California
          • 2015-06-11 Siskiyou Mountains
          • 2015-06-10 Applegate Valley
          • 2015-06-09 Ken Denman Reserve
          • 2015-06-05 Klamath Falls
          • 2015-06-05 Klamath Falls Run
          • My Stay In Fields Oregon
          • 2015-06-03 Malheur NWR
          • 2015-06-02 Malheur Run
      • Arizona
        • 2020 Arizona
          • 2020-11-26 & 27 Outside of Pima Arizona
          • 2020-11-16 Monday at the Boyce Thompson Arboretum
          • 2020-11-12 Thursday In Gilbert Arizona
          • 2020-05-27 Arivaca Cienega
          • 2020-05-20 Road From ABQ and Mount Graham
          • 2020-02-27 – Drive from Thatcher to Las Cruces
          • 2020-02-24: Boyce-Thompson Arboretum
          • 2020-02-23 At The Gilbert Water Ranch
        • 2019 Arizona
          • 2019-10-27 Sunday at Arivaca
          • 2019-10-24 Catalina State Park
          • 2019-10-23 At The Boyce Thompson Arboretum
          • Catching Up With Old Friends
          • 2019-10-16 The Arboretum At Flagstaff
          • 2019-10-13 Cibola NWR
        • 2017 Arizona
          • 2017-08-12 Driving Up The Colorado River
          • 2017-05-04 Arivaca Cienega
          • 2017-05-03 Arivaca’s La Siesta Campground
          • 2017-05-01 2 Days In The Santa Rita Mountains
          • 2017-04-26~28 Mount Lemmon: Sky Island Heaven
          • 2017-04-25 Sabino Canyon
          • 2017-04-24 Agua Caliente Park
        • 2015 Arizona
          • 2015-11-12 Arizona Trip Favorites
          • 2015-10-30 Highway Hypnosis In Arizona
          • 2015-10-29 Arivaca Arizona
          • 2015-10-27 Madera Canyon
          • 2015-10-27 Marana Arizona’s Powered Paragliders
          • 2015-10-26 Tubac Arizona
          • 2015-10-25 Sierra Vista
          • 2015-10-23 Rustler Park
          • 2015-10-22 “Common” Tucson Birds
          • 2015-10-15 Tucson via the Salton Sea
          • 2015-10-18 Mount Lemmon
          • 2015-05-03 Silver Creek
          • 2015-05-02 Havasu NWR
          • 2015-04-28 Cibola
          • 2015-04-28 Bill Williams NWR
        • 2016-03-13 at Bullhead City And The Tamed Colorado River
        • 2014 Late November With Bullhead City’s Deserts And Marshlands
        • 2014-11-25 Bill Williams NWR
        • 2013-08-29 Arizona Trip
        • 2004-06-23 Redington Road
      • New Mexico
        • 2020 New Mexico
          • 2020-12-25 Christmas at Bitter Lake Near Roswell
          • 2020-12-22 Tuesday At Bosque del Apache
          • 2020-12-18&19 At The Bernardo Unit – Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex
          • 2020-12-17 Wednesday At The Rio Grande Nature Center
          • 2020-12-16 Tuesday Finches at 10,600′
          • 2020-12-09 A Morning in Corrales New Mexico
          • 2020-12-06 Wild Ducks at the Albuquerque Zoo
          • 2020-12-05 Bosque and New Mexico Falconry
          • 2020-11-30 Monday at Bosque del Apache
          • 2020-11-29 Sunday At The Catwalk
          • 2020-05-20 Road From ABQ and Mount Graham
          • 2020-05-15: The Bosque at Tingley Beach
          • 2020-05-12: The Road to Bosque del Apache
          • 2020-03-04 Wednesday At Dripping Springs
          • 2020-03-02 Aguirre Springs In The Organ Mountains
          • 2020-02-29 & March 1 At Mesilla Valley
        • 2016 New Mexico
          • 2016-04-10 Sights South Of Albuquerque
          • 2016-04-08 Hanging Out In Albuquerque
          • 2016-03-24 Upper Gila River to Virden Bridge
          • 2016-03-23 Homeward Past Bosque Del Apache
          • 2016-03-21 Burrowing Owls of Los Lunas
          • 2016-03-20 & 22 Rio Grande Nature Center
          • 2016-03-19 Albuquerque Botanic Gardens
          • 2016-03-17 A Day At The Albuquerque Zoo
      • Nevada
        • 2020-11-09 Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve
        • 2020-11-07 November in Northern Nevada
        • 2017-08-13 Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve
        • 2015-05-05 Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve
      • Utah
        • 2017-08-19 Willard Bay
        • 2017-08-17&18 Antelope Island Phalaropes
        • 2017-08-17&18 Antelope Island Swallows
        • 2017-08-17&18 Antelope Island Gulls
        • 2017-08-17 Antelope Island (Part 1 of 4)
        • 2017-08-16 Promontory​ Road
        • 2017-08-16 Bear River
        • 2017-08-14 Bicknell Bottoms
        • 2017-08-14 Capitol Reef FlyBy
        • 2017-08-13 Zion Drive Through
        • 2015-05-12 Two Days At Bear River
        • 2015-05-10 Two Days At Antelope Island
        • 2015-05-09 Fish Lake Utah
        • 2015-05-08 Bicknell Bottoms
        • 2015-05-07 Otter Creek and Bicknell Bottoms
        • 2015-05-06 Zion National Park
      • Wyoming
        • 2015-05-22 Teton and Yellowstone Parks
        • 2015-05-19 Moose-Wilson Road Re-Visited
        • 2015-05-17 Moose-Wilson Road
        • 2015-05-18 Jackson to Yellowstone
        • 2015-05-16 Jackson Wyoming
        • 2015-05-14 Pinedale Explorations
        • 2015-05-13 Drive to Pinedale
      • Idaho
        • 2017-08-21 In The Shadow Of The Moon
        • 2015-06-01 Snake River Birds of Prey
        • 2015-05-31 Bird Island Reserve
      • Montana
        • 2015-05-27 Bitterroot Valley, Days 4 and 5
        • 2015-05-25 3rd Day In The Bitterroot Valley
      • Texas
        • Texas 2021
          • 2021-04-08 SPI Birding & Nature Center
          • 2021-04-06 SPI Reruns
          • 2021-04-04 Continuing the SPI Saga
          • 2021-04-02 Back to South Padre Island
          • 2021-03-30 SPI Convention Centre
          • 2021-03-27 Palmito Hill & Boca Chica Beach
          • 2021-03-24 At Estero Llano, Even Slow Days Are Good
          • 2021-03-26 Sabal Palms Again
          • 2021-03-21 Resaca2mi de la Palma
          • 2021-03-19 Friday Among Sabal Palms
          • 2021-03-16 SPI Convention Centre
          • 2021-03-12 Friday at Aransas NWR
          • 2021-03-10 Wednesday at San Bernard NWR
          • 2021-03-08 Anahuac NWR
          • 2021-03-06 High Island Rookery
          • 2021-03-04 Galveston Boat Ride
          • 2021-03-02 Tuesday Morning At Aransas NWR
          • 2021-02-23 First Time At Quinta Mazatlan
          • 2021-02-28 Port Aransas Nature Center
          • 2021-02-25 National Butterfly Center
          • 2021-02-23 First Time At Quinta Mazatlan
          • 2021-02-21 First Visit To Santa Ana NWR
          • 2021-02-19 Bentsen RGVSP Again
          • 2021-02-16 Bentsen RGV State Park
          • 2021-02-11 SPI Convention Centre and Bahia Grande
          • 2021-02-08 South Padre Island Birding & Nature Center
          • 2021-02-06 Edinburg Scenic Wetlands
          • 2021-02-04 Laguna Vista and Laguna Atascosa
          • 2021-02-01 Got To Get Back To South Padre
          • 2021-01-30 Boca Chica Beach
          • 2021-01-28 Sabal Palms, Ten Days Hence
          • 2021-01-26 A Day at Palmito Hill
          • 2021-01-22 A Day at Estero Llano
          • 2021-01-19 A Day on South Padre Island
          • 2021-01-18 Sabal Palm Sanctuary
          • 2021-01-15 and 16 At Breeze Lake
          • 2021-01-11 Quemado Roadside Birds
          • 2021-01-08 A Visit To Langtry Texas
          • 2021-01-06, Winding Up My Stay in Big Bend
          • 2021-01-02 Big Bend’s Ross Maxwell Drive
          • 2020-12-29 On The Texas Mountain Trail
          • 2020-12-27 Sunday Camping in Guadalupe National Park
        • Texas Spring 2020
          • 2020-05-07: Texas Farewell
          • 2020-04-17: Feeder Vigil in Brownsville
          • 2020-04-01 April 1st In Camp
          • 2020-03-22 Passing Through Harlingen Texas
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Raptors

31 Subjects, 412 Images

Raptors, or ‘birds of prey’, get their name from the grasping talons they use to seize and subdue their prey. On display in these galleries are Owls (Burrowing, Great Horned, Long-Eared, Northern Pygmy, Short-Eared, and Western and Eastern Screech), Hawks (Common Black, Coopers, Ferruginous, Harris’s, Northern Harrier, Red-Shouldered, Red-Tailed, Rough-Legged, Sharp-Shinned, Swainson’s, and White-Tailed Kite), Falcons (American Kestrel, Merlin, Crested Caracara, Peregrine and Prairie Falcon), Eagles (Bald, Golden, and Martial), and Osprey.

Western Screech-Owl - Megascops kennicottii

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Owls

Galleries: 8

Images: 70

American Kestrel - Falco sparverius

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American Kestrel

Images: 20

Bald Eagle - Haliaeetus leucocephalu

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Bald Eagle

Images: 30

Common Black-Hawk - Buteogallus anthracinus

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Common Black Hawk

Images: 9

Cooper's Hawk - Accipiter cooperii

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Cooper’s Hawk

Images: 15

Crested Caracara - Caracara cheriway

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Crested Caracara

Images: 18

Ferruginous Hawk - Buteo regalis

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Ferruginous Hawk

Images: 2

Golden Eagle - Aquila chrysaetos

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Golden Eagle

Images: 6

Gray Hawk - Buteo plagiatus

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Gray Hawk

Images: 11

Harris's Hawk - Parabuteo unicinctus

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Harris’s Hawk

Images: 23

Martial Eagle - Polemaetus bellicosus

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Martial Eagle

Images: 3

Merlin - Falco columbarius

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Merlin

Images: 8

Mississippi Kite - Ictinia mississippiensis

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Mississippi Kite

Images: 6

Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus

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Northern Harrier

Images: 24

Osprey and Ravens - Pandion haliaetus

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Osprey

Images: 53

Peregrine Falcon - Falco peregrinus

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Peregrine Falcon

Images: 20

Prairie Falcon - Falco mexicanus

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Prairie Falcon

Images: 3

Red-shouldered Hawk - Buteo Lineatus

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Red-Shouldered Hawk

Images: 10

Red-Tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis

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Red-Tailed Hawk

Images: 32

Rough-Legged Hawk - Buteo lagopus

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Rough-Legged Hawk

Images: 3

Sharp-Shinned Hawk - Accipiter striatus

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Sharp-Shinned Hawk

Images: 7

Swainson's Hawk - Buteo swainsoni

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Swainson’s Hawk

Images: 13

White-Tailed Hawk - Geranoaetus albicaudatus

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White-Tailed Hawk

Images: 9

White-Tailed Kite - Elanus leucurus

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White-Tailed Kite

Images: 17

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