A medium-sized hawk with short, rounded wings and a fairly long black-and-white banded tail. Adults are pale gray below with a finely barred chest.
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A tropical species that barely crosses the border into Arizona and Texas, the Gray Hawk is an elegant, raincloud-gray raptor with neatly barred underparts.
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The gray hawk or Mexican goshawk is a smallish raptor found in open country and forest edges. It is sometimes placed in the genus Asturina as Asturina plagiata. The species was split by the American Ornithological Society from the gray-lined hawk.... Wikipedia
Class: Aves
Domain: Eukaryota
Scientific name: Buteo plagiatus
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Buteo
Kingdom: Animalia
Order: Accipitriformes
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The gray hawk (Buteo plagiatus) or Mexican goshawk is a smallish raptor found in open country and forest edges. It is sometimes placed in the genus Asturina ...
Widespread and common in the tropics, this small hawk enters our area mainly in southeastern Arizona, where it is limited to cottonwood and mesquite forests ...
Compact raptor. Adults distinctive, all pale gray with thin white bars on underparts. Tail banded black and white. Juvenile is brown and streaky.
Gray Hawks are year-round residents in south Texas from Webb to Hidalgo counties and summer residents in the Trans-Pecos.
The Gray Hawk is a diurnal bird of prey. This means it hunts, soars, and otherwise goes about its business during daylight hours, and roosts, or rests, at night ...
The Gray Hawk (Asturina nitida) once known as the "Mexican Goshawk", because of its similar appearance to the Northern Goshawk, seen in North America.
A predominantly Mexican and South American species, a small population migrates to spend the spring and summer months in southern Arizona.
This small tropical hawk ranges all the way to Argentina and Paraguay and barely makes it into the US here and in Texas. It's also a beautiful bird—stately gray ...