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Scanning the skies for Zone-tailed hawks

10,000 Birds

Last week I wrote about the interesting hunting habits of our local Harris’s Hawks. Today I will cover another one of Mexico’s Baja Peninsulas characters, the Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo Albonotatus. The tail bands on the adult birds consist of three bands with the third, or lower band much wider and cleaner white.