Ferruginous Hawk

Ferruginous Hawk Pano

By |2021-09-25T14:00:40-06:00June 26th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I love the raised wings of the Ferruginous Hawk, the bright blue sky with just a hint of clouds and the regal raptor soaring above me and the Stansbury Mountains in Tooele County, Utah

Ferruginous Hawk in Montana

By |2021-09-23T16:39:23-06:00June 6th, 2013|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Montana|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Ferruginous Hawks fascinate me, they are large, handsome and regal raptors. This one just appears to me to be surveying its kingdom from the top of a ranch gate in the Centennial Valley.

Immature Red-tailed, Rough-legged, Ferruginous and Swainson’s Hawks

By |2024-03-16T05:08:17-06:00January 27th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Davis County, Ferruginous Hawks, Montana, Red-tailed Hawks, Rough-legged Hawks, Swainson's Hawks, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Today I thought I would post images of the juvenile Buteos that I see most often in Utah and Montana, they are Red-tailed, Rough-legged, Ferruginous and Swainson's Hawks.

Ferruginous Hawk in Beaverhead County, Montana

By |2021-09-23T17:53:46-06:00August 18th, 2012|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Ferruginous Hawks, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Ferruginous Hawks are the largest hawks found in North America. They inhabit low elevation, open areas in the western United States and some locations in southwestern Canada and winter in southwestern US and Mexico.

Ferruginous Hawk in Tooele County, Utah

By |2021-09-23T18:28:22-06:00February 8th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

There aren't many people in the west desert of Utah thus the raptors and other birds that live there are not habituated to people so they are very skittish even when using a mobile blind.

Ferruginous Hawk – A Regal Raptor

By |2021-09-23T19:01:14-06:00November 7th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Ferruginous Hawks are the largest hawks found in North America, the "regalis" in the latin name means "kingly" or "regal" and I have to agree with those descriptions.

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