Red-tailed Hawk 2 Print is a photograph by Jim Thompson which was uploaded on February 10th, 2025.
Red-tailed Hawk 2 Print
by Jim Thompson
Title
Red-tailed Hawk 2 Print
Artist
Jim Thompson
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Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies. It is one of the most common members of the genus Buteo. The red-tailed hawk is one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "chickenhawk", though it rarely preys on standard-sized chickens.
Red-tailed hawks can acclimate to all the biomes within their range, occurring on the edges of non-ideal habitats such as dense forests and sandy deserts.The red-tailed hawk occupies a wide range of habitats and altitudes, including deserts, grasslands, coniferous and deciduous forests, agricultural fields, and urban areas. Its latitudinal limits fall around the tree line in the subarctic and it is absent from the high Arctic. It favors varied habitats with open woodland, woodland edge and open terrain. It is legally protected in Canada, Mexico, and the United States by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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Pat Goltz
What a dramatic and intense position!
Jim Thompson replied:
Thanks Pat. I was photographig the bird as it flew down to the tree for a perch.
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