Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis)
Description The ferruginous hawk is the largest hawk in North America. With its puffed chest and stern eyes, it looks every bit like the classic hunter it is.
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Ferruginous hawk Buteo regalis
Identification Tips:
Length: 20 inches Wingspan: 54 inches
Sexes similar
Short, dark, hooked beak
Large, broad-winged, broad-tailed hawk
Extremely long gape extends to below eye
Legs feathered to toes ...
Ferruginous Hawk
Relatives in same Genus
White-tailed Hawk (B. albicaudatus)
Short-tailed Hawk (B. brachyurus)
Red-tailed Hawk (B. jamaicensis)
Rough-legged Hawk (B. lagopus)
Red-shouldered Hawk (B. lineatus)
Gray Hawk (B. nitidus) ...
Ferruginous Hawk
Buteo regalis
The Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis) nests across much of the Great Plains of the western United States and parts of southern Canada. It is a large, heavy buteo with a powerful flight.
Ferruginous Hawk - Wings on Wed.
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Prescott
01/12/11 ...
Ferruginous Hawks prey mainly on ground squirrels, jackrabbits and woodrats. It is a powerful bird with a large gape (mouth).
Ferruginous hawks may lay eggs between February and July. Often 3 or 4 white eggs, that are blotched with brown, are laid. Both adults incubate the eggs which take about 28-32 days to hatch.
Ferruginous hawks usually begin to breed when they are two years old. They make their nest in a bush or tree or on a hillside. The female lays three to five spotted eggs (generally, the better the food supply, the more eggs she will lay).
Ferruginous Hawk
Adult light-morph
Similar to lighter plumages of Red-tailed Hawk
White throat, breast, and belly
Reddish leg feathers
Mostly white wings with dark tips and reddish shoulders
Whitish tail
© Robinsegg, Utah, November 2005 ...
Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis. Accidental. Hypothetical.
Rough-legged Hawk Buteo lagopus. Rare in winter and rare to occasional in spring primarily in the Tennessee Valley region. Found in grasslands and open cultivated areas.
Hawks preying on black-tailed jackrabbit include the ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis) [5,45,47,85], white-tailed hawk (B. albicaudatus) [66], Swainson's hawk (B. swainsoni), and red-tailed hawk (B. jamaicensis) [47].
Swainson's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk (B. jamaicensis) and Ferruginous Hawk (B. regalis) compete for territory, and defend territories against each other.
Ferruginous Hawk, Buteo regalis
Red-shouldered Hawk, Buteo lineatus
Broad-winged Hawk, Buteo platypterus
Swainson's Hawk, Buteo swainsoni
Roadside Hawk, Buteo magnirostris
Ridgway's Hawk, Buteo ridgwayi ...
We had nice view of Ferruginous Hawks, a Rough-legged Hawk, Prairie Falcon, and even the Northern Shrike (along Cook Lane, just south of 113, on the west side of the road).
Natural predators of the desert cottontail include the golden and bald eagles, great horned owl, ferruginous hawk, badger, coyote, foxes, bobcat, and humans. Rattlesnakes prey upon the young.
Species Buteo regalis (ferruginous hawk)
Species Buteo ridgwayi (Ridgway's hawk)
Species Buteo rufinus (long-legged buzzard) ...
They are an important prey species, being the primary diet in prairie species such as the Black-footed Ferret, the Swift Fox, the Golden Eagle, the Badger, and the Ferruginous Hawk.
 See also: Hawk, Eagle, Sparrow, Turkey, Plover
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