Zone-tailed Hawk
Buteo albonotatus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 4,417
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) is a medium-sized hawk of warm, dry parts of the Americas. It is somewhat similar in plumage and flight style to a common scavenger, the turkey vulture, and may benefit from being able to blend into groups of vultures. It feeds on small terrestrial tetrapods of all kinds.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Zone-tailed hawk”.