#red-tailed hawk

[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)

[kriegsnet]

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

[occasionallybirds]

Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

August 23, 2023

Southeastern Pennsylvania

[antiqueanimals]

Virginia Wildlife; vol. 18, no. 8. August, 1957.

Internet Archive

[asterwild]

Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) found throughout most of North America

[drethelin]

[birds-that-screm]

Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

© Nicole Richardson

[archimedes-stims]

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[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Have you read the "Hurt Hawks" poem by Robinson Jeffers? It's short, you can read it online. Oh, my heart...

Holy shit. Those are some emotions. Damn.

Hurt Hawks By Robinson Jeffers

I

The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, No more to use the sky forever but live with famine And pain a few days: cat nor coyote Will shorten the week of waiting for death, there is game without talons. He stands under the oak-bush and waits The lame feet of salvation; at night he remembers freedom And flies in a dream, the dawns ruin it. He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. The curs of the day come and torment him At distance, no one but death the redeemer will humble that head, The intrepid readiness, the terrible eyes. The wild God of the world is sometimes merciful to those That ask mercy, not often to the arrogant. You do not know him, you communal people, or you have forgotten him; Intemperate and savage, the hawk remembers him; Beautiful and wild, the hawks, and men that are dying, remember him.

II

I’d sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk; but the great redtail Had nothing left but unable misery From the bones too shattered for mending, the wing that trailed under his talons when he moved. We had fed him for six weeks, I gave him freedom, He wandered over the foreland hill and returned in the evening, asking for death, Not like a beggar, still eyed with the old Implacable arrogance. I gave him the lead gift in the twilight. What fell was relaxed, Owl-downy, soft feminine feathers; but what Soared: the fierce rush: the night-herons by the flooded river cried fear at its rising Before it was quite unsheathed from reality.

[princessmagpie]

Ax & Tobias

[meklarian]

Red-tailed Hawk Snyder Hill Rd / Pima County Tucson, Arizona, USA November, 2019

(more hawks here)

[tilbugs]

adult red-tailed hawk at a civil war battlefield (eastern flank battle field) in tennessee! I was told the cedar she’s perched in is over 200 years old

july 31st, 2024

red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)

tennessee, US

[canondorff]

8/14/2024

did NOT even know that there was a red-tailed hawk out there (currently)—got a shot of the immature hawk that this one is protecting yesterday, will upload when i have better quality shots. but yeah, what the heck?? great horned owl at NOON when it's 90~ degrees out? lucky lucky, and then i got this wild photobomb!

[brooklynbridgebirds]

American Crows mob a Red-tailed Hawk on a Brooklyn water tower. Hooray for urban birding!

[antiqueanimals]

Virginia Wildlife; vol. 16, no. 4. April, 1955. Illustration by Bob Hines.

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[passengerpigeons]