This regal bird is the largest of our soaring Buteo hawks, a fitting raptor for the wide skies and windswept plains of the west. The largest of the North American buteos, the ferruginous hawk (Buteo regalis) is found year-round in southern and western Utah but spreads throughout the northern part of the state in the summer. This bird was photographed during the winter which is the only time I see Rough-legged Hawks in Utah and Montana. This bird’s large, yellow feet and the dark feathering on its legs that creates distinctive “bloomers” can help birders identify it in flight . Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis: Utah County, Utah 15 Nov 2013 : by John Crawley ©John Crawley: Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis Light Adult Wayne County, Utah 10 May 2013 : by Steve Christensen ©Steve Christensen Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis. Distribution The ferruginous hawk is the largest buteo in North America (Ng et al 2017). J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112; Ecological and animal data provided by NatureServe. A single pair of ferruginous hawks can prey upon 480 ground squirrels in one summer while raising young! It is often seen sitting on the ground in open fields. Saw one of these in Southern Salt Lake County recently.

It soars with its broad wings held in a shallow V, and swoops down to catch ground squirrels, snakes, young jackrabbits, and other good-sized prey. A rarer dark-morph is reddish-chocolate in color. The ferruginous hawk breeds from southeastern Alberta, southern Saskatchewan and extreme southwestern Manitoba south through eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and Nevada to Arizona and New Mexico.

Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis: West side of Utah Lake Utah County, Utah 5 Mar 2018 : by Cliff Miles ©Cliff Miles: Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis Light Juvenile Box Elder Co., Utah 5 Oct 2003 : by Jack Binch ©Jack Binch Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis. However, in years of low prey abundance, ferruginous hawks will often switch from primary to alternate prey [ 21 , 32 ]. Buteo regalis. All 39; Taxonomy; ... Ferruginous Hawk 1.

This juvenile Rough-legged Hawk was also very cooperative as it preened and fluffed on Antelope Island State Park in Davis County, Utah.

The ferruginous hawk (ferruginous = from Latin ferrum – iron, ferrugin-, iron rust, iron-rust color – reddish-brown), Buteo regalis (Latin, royal hawk), is a large bird of prey and belongs to the broad-winged buteo hawks.An old colloquial name is ferrugineous rough-leg, due to its similarity to the closely related rough-legged hawk (B. lagopus).. Ferruginous hawk fledgling success and nesting densities in southern Idaho and northern Utah were closely correlated with the cyclic black-tailed jackrabbit population . Raptors of Utah; Print Raptors of Utah This guide will includes every species of raptor native to Utah. Keith Day and Jess Kinross, wildlife biologists for the Utah Division of Natural …

PacifiCorp (operating as Rocky Mountain Power in Utah), has teamed up with the BLM Moab office and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to assist in the preservation of the ferruginous hawk, a state-sensitive species. Birds winter from southern Wyoming to central Mexico and from the

I’ve personally found this species every month of the year in northern Utah. We examined the reproduction of Ferruginous Hawks (Buteo regalis) in Utah's West Desert from 1997–99. Found in prairies, deserts, and open range of the West, the regal Ferruginous Hawk hunts from a lone tree, rock outcrop, or from high in the sky. It soars with its broad wings held in a shallow V, and swoops down to catch ground squirrels, snakes, young jackrabbits, and other good-sized prey. An immature ferruginous hawk is photographed atop a power pole.

A rarer dark-morph is reddish-chocolate in color.

Northern Goshawk 4. It soars with its broad wings held in a shallow V, and swoops down to catch ground squirrels, snakes, young jackrabbits, and other good-sized prey. Thought it was a BIG red tail, but couldn't find a belly band and figured it was too big, anyway. Accipiter gentilis. The mission of HawkWatch International is to conserve our environment through education, long-term monitoring, and scientific research on raptors as indicators of ecosystem health. This largest of North American hawks really is regal—its species name is regalis —with a unique gray head, rich, rusty (ferruginous) shoulders and legs, and gleaming white underparts. We found 100 occupied territories during the study; 80 of them contained an active nest (i.e., evidence of eggs laid). PacifiCorp (operating as Rocky Mountain Power in Utah), has teamed up with the BLM Moab office and Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to assist in the preservation of the ferruginous hawk, a state-sensitive species. Its breeding range extends from south central Canada to southern Utah and from eastern South Dakota to central Washington and Oregon. Sharp-shinned Hawk 5.