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Scanning the skies for Zone-tailed hawks

10,000 Birds

Today I will cover another one of Mexico’s Baja Peninsulas characters, the Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo Albonotatus. Very similar in size and shape to the very common Turkey Vulture , the Zone-tailed Hawk is quite often found circling on the wind currents with those very vultures. Below is a photo I got on Sunday of a juvenile.

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The Grand Old Hawkwatch of the South

10,000 Birds

But those birds have to go somewhere, even if the concentrations that have come to define the above sites have thinned a little by the time the birds cruise down the mountain range. You step out on the rock and see nothing but for the lazy circles of Turkey Vulture. I was leading a field trip with a dozen intrepid souls.