2018年3月17日 · The Northern Harrier is distinctive from a long distance away: a slim, long-tailed hawk gliding low over a marsh or grassland, holding its wings in a V-shape and sporting a white patch at the base of its tail. Up close it has an owlish face that helps it hear mice and voles beneath the vegetation.

2012年3月25日 · Northern Harriers are slender, medium-sized raptors with long, fairly broad wings and a long, rounded tail. They have a flat, owl-like face and a small, sharply hooked bill. Harriers often fly with their wings held in a dihedral, or V-shape above the horizontal.

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Harriers are very distinctive hawks, long-winged and long-tailed, usually seen quartering low over the ground in open country. At close range, the face of our Northern Harrier looks rather like that of an owl; like an owl (and unlike most other hawks) it may rely on its keen hearing to help it locate prey as it courses low over the fields.

Browse 2,100+ northern harrier stock photos and images available, or search for killdeer or peregrine falcon to find more great stock photos and pictures. A northern harrier flying along a marsh. Female northern harrier perched on stump.

2024年1月1日 · Northern Harriers are slim, medium-sized raptors with long wings, long tails and they have owl-like facial discs with small bills. They use hearing as well as sight to locate their prey. Northern Harriers are sexually dimorphic meaning the males and females look different.

Female Northern Harrier Standing on One Leg The Northern Harrier or Marsh Hawk (Circus cyaneus) is a migratory bird of prey that breeds in the northern hemisphere and winters in the southernmost USA, Mexico and Central America. It hunts by swooping low and following the contours of the land.

The northern harrier is a bird of prey. It breeds throughout the northern parts of the northern hemisphere in Canada and the northernmost USA. While many taxonomic authorities split the northern harrier and the hen harrier into distinct species, others consider them conspecific.

Northern harrier nest, circus cyaneus, taken in wild, in Theodore Roosevelt National, North Dakota, USA Park, Agnieszka Bacal. View the cutest and most interesting Northern Harrier pictures on the internet on AZ Animals.