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Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) 2 images			The Turkey Vulture is a large black-brown bird with a bare red head. The flight feathers are gray on the underside. It can soar for long periods, holding its long wings held in a shallow v-shape. The pale colored bill is fairly short and hooked.... Read more >
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) 2 images			The American Black Vulture is a large glossy black vulture. The head and neck are bare with dark gray wrinkled skin. The legs are pale gray. The feet are flat and not adapted to grasping prey. It is a soaring bird with broad wings with large pale... Read more >
California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) 2 images			Read more >
King Vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) 3 images			Read more >
Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) 3 images			The Crested Caracara is a large black-brown bird with black crown and crest. The throat and sides of the neck are pale buff color and face has bare red skin. The legs are yellow and the bill is hooked and blue-gray in color. The tail is banded... Read more >
Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis) 2 images			Read more >
Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) 1 image			Read more >
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) 2 images			Read more >
American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) 2 images			Read more >
Eurasian Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) 1 image			Read more >
Laughing Falcon (Herpetotheres cachinnans) 1 image			Read more >
Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) 1 image			The Northern Goshawk has a blue gray back and pale gray underside, with fine bars on the chest. The top of the head is dark gray and it has a white stripe above the eyes. The wings are broad and rounded, and the long tail is dark gray. The eyes are... Read more >
Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) 2 images			Golden Eagles are large raptors with long, broad wings. They are mainly dark brown with golden feathers on the head, neck and face. The tail is gray brown. In flight the underside of the wings appear brownish gray, and the head and body look almost... Read more >
Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis) 1 image			The Black-collared Hawk is a reddish brown hawk with off white head and bold black crescent shaped mark on the upper chest. The back has scattered black stripes. The flight feathers are black. The tail is black with reddish bar at the base. The eyes... Read more >
White-tailed Hawk (Buteo albicaudatus) 1 image			The White-tailed Hawk has gray head and back, white underside and reddish patch on the shoulder. The tail is white with a black band near the tip. Males and females are similar in appearance, although females are larger. Juvenile birds are dark... Read more >
Short-tailed Hawk (Buteo brachyurus) 1 image			The Short-tailed Hawk is a small buzzard with broad rounded wings, and broad tail. There are two color morphs - light and dark. The light morph is dark brown above with white face and white underside. The tail and flight feathers are gray with dark... Read more >
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 3 images			The Red-tailed Hawk is a large hawk with broad wings and broad red tail with dark band near the tip. There are light and dark color morphs. The light form has dark brown head, white chest with reddish brown streaks, often a dark band on the belly,... Read more >
Rough-legged Hawk (Buteo lagopus) 2 images			The Rough-legged Hawk is a large hawk with long broad wings and pale white feathers with dark training wing edges. The tail is white at base with broad dark band at tip. There are light and dark color morphs. The male light morph has brown back,... Read more >
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) 1 image			The Red-shouldered Hawk has reddish shoulders and chest and reddish belly with white bars. The wings are dark gray to black. The tail has broad black bands separated by thinner white bands. It has a pale crescent shape near the wing tips that is... Read more >
Gray Hawk (Buteo nitidus) 1 image			The Grey Hawk has a light gray body. Birds from southern part of range have fine white barring, while birds from northern parts of the range are plain gray above. The tail is black with three white bands. The legs are orange, and bill is dark gray.... Read more >
Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis) 2 images			The Ferruginous Hawk is a large hawk with white or pale gray tail. There are two color morphs - light and dark. The light morph has white and pal gray head, reddish brown back and shoulders , mainly white underside with some reddish brown streaks,... Read more >
Swainson's Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) 2 images			Swainson's Hawk is a medium hawk with brown head and white face, dark chest band, light tail with dark bands. There is alight form with white belly, and a dark form that is mainly brown with white under the tail and some lighter marking on the... Read more >
Common Black-Hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus) 1 image			The Common Black Hawk is a black or dark gray hawk with broad wings. The tail is short and black with a broad white band and a white tail tip. The bill is black. The legs and cere are yellow. Males and females are similar. Immature birds are dark... Read more >
Great Black-Hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) 1 image			The Great Black Hawk is mainly black with short white tail with a broad black tip. The bill is black. The legs and cere are yellow. Males and females are similar. Immature birds are dark brown above with spotting and streaks, buff below with dark... Read more >
Northern Harrier (Circus cyaneus) 2 images			The Northern Harrier is a medium-sized hawk with long tail and slender, rounded wings. It has a ruff of feathers around face. The bill is dark with blue base and yellow skin at base of bill. The eyes are yellow. The feet and legs are orange-yellow. ... Read more >
Swallow-tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus) 1 image			Read more >
White-tailed Kite (Elanus leucurus) 1 image			Read more >
Crane Hawk (Geranospiza caerulescens) 1 image			Read more >
White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) 1 image			Read more >
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) 4 images			Read more >
Steller's Sea-Eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) 2 images			Read more >
Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) 2 images			Read more >
Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippiensis) 1 image			Read more >
Plumbeous Kite (Ictinia plumbea) 1 image			Read more >
White Hawk (Leucopternis albicollis) 1 image			Read more >
Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) 2 images			Read more >
Harris's Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) 2 images			Read more >
Ornate Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus ornatus) 2 images			Read more >
Black Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus) 1 image			Read more >
Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle (Spizastur melanoleucus) 1 image			Read more >