Birds:

Common name: Harris's Hawk Latin name: Parabuteo unicinctus

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Length: 18 inches Wingspan: 43 inches

Sexes similar

Large, long-tailed, broad-winged hawk

Short, dark, hooked beak with yellow cere

White uppertail coverts

Adult:

Chocolate-brown head, neck, back, and belly

Chestnut underwing coverts and leg feathers

Dark flight feathers above and below

Chestnut upperwing has dark centers to many of the feathers

White undertail coverts

Black tail with white base and terminal band

Immature:

Chocolate-brown head and neck with sparse pale streaking

White belly streaked with chocolate-brown

Leg feathers pale with chestnut barring

Upperwing and underwing coverts chestnut, with dark centers to many of the feathers

Pale bases to primaries create pale patch in outer wing

Dark tail with narrrow white base and terminal band

Similar species:

Dark plumage, chestnut wing coverts, black tail with white base and terminal band eliminate all other hawks.

Corydoras