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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.

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The Grand Old Hawkwatch of the South

10,000 Birds

You step out on the rock and see nothing but for the lazy circles of Turkey Vulture. It’s 90% Broad-wings, paddle-shaped with crisp tail bands, but there are a handful of Sharp-shinned Hawks mixed in too, looking for all the world like the flying gavels described in every hawk-watching tome.