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Scanning the skies for Zone-tailed hawks

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Last week I wrote about the interesting hunting habits of our local Harris’s Hawks. There is a small population in Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and northern Argentina. Today I will cover another one of Mexico’s Baja Peninsulas characters, the Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo Albonotatus.

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Ferruginous Pygmy-Owls

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These wily and diminutive owls occur from Bolivia and Argentina northward through Central America (check out this post on Pico Bonito ) and only just occur in the United States in Arizona and south Texas. And, like the Pearl-spotted Owlet of Africa, this species often hunts in the middle of the day.

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