#HAWK

[marmosetpaw]

[drstarlineidw]

Cool skater boy

[usaac-official]

Men rest in the shade of a 22nd Pursuit Squadron P-36 at Langley Field, probably 1940

[todaysbird]

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

[hawkpartys]

[herd-reject-arts]

So I'm leaving work and something darts in front of me, maybe 10ft away, too fast for me to see what it is. Peek around the tree blocking my path and I see this

Just like... a whole ass hawk. Dude's gotta be about 1.5ft tall. Massive fucking bird. And it's just staring me straight in my soul like this, even as I try to move ahead. It didn't budge. And there's only this path back to my car unless I want to walk on a busy highway. So I have the option of Death By Raptor or Death By Truck.

So I walk in the poison ivy filled patch off the sidewalk. Guy still isn't moving. Still staring me directly in the eyes. And I do this thing when animals are behaving strangely where I'll talk to them, so I'm just like, "Hey, man. I don't know you. You don't know me. This feels really threatening. I'm just trying to get to my car, dude. Can I get some space please? You're a big fucking bird. I see those claws. You could kill me right now, but I'd appreciate if you didn't, ok?"

It didn't move until I was about 2ft away. Again: I'm as far from it as I can be without walking into the street. It clearly wasn't going to budge. I walk past, thing flies up (silent, btw. Scary) and lands on a brick wall a little further ahead

Anyway. Weird guy. Nearly shit my pants when I noticed a bird big enough to carry off a fully grown cat was just... there, staring me in the face, unwilling to move away from me, a human, something it should see as a threat. I watched behind me the whole rest of the way to my car, just in case this bird decided to help me shed this mortal coil. 10/10 experience. Super cool guy.

[kriegsnet]

Leucistic Red-Tailed Hawk. We've named her Lucy for short. Sony A7IV, 200-600mm G

[splashtqil]

and the most tragic warrior cat award goes to

[herpsandbirds]

Crested Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus) EAT THAT TASTY HONEYS!!!, family Accipitridae, found across much of South and East Asia.

photograph by mikewang151

[autistrix]

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181135859]

Osprey || Pandion haliaetus

Observed in United States

Vulnerable in location of observation

FOUR entire fish!

[northcote-art]

Шдд тще иукекфн ьн вкуфь

[fimbry]

Don't underestimate me

[willdoanythingfortacos]

saw this hawk come into my yard flying low... i was hoping to get to see a good hunt in progress live, but no luck... still a good end to a tough friday... and not a bad pic for a cellphone...

[todaysbird]

the pacific baza is a slender, medium-sized hawk found in australia, indonesia, papua new guinea, the solomon islands, and east timor. they are the only new guinean raptor with a crest. somewhat unusually for a hawk, this species is omnivorous, and feeds on fruits and vegetation in addition to lizards, birds, and other small prey. females are slightly heavier than males, with more brown coloration on their uppersides, sometimes with more dark barring on their secondary flight feathers. both sexes are primarily gray, brown, and white. this species is largely non-migratory.

[hawkpartys]

that one "tiny hawk" meme drives me nuts because 1) the bird pictured is a kestrel and 2) there is already a species of hawk called the Tiny Hawk

so i made my own version

[redroses07]

if miguel introduced johnny to snap