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Zone-tailed Hawk

Buteo albonotatus

Field notes

The zone-tailed hawk (Buteo albonotatus) is a medium-sized hawk of warm, dry parts of the Americas. It is somewhat similar in plumage and flight style to a common scavenger, the turkey vulture, and may benefit from being able to blend into groups of vultures. It feeds on small terrestrial tetrapods of all kinds.

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Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided