Buteo swainsoni
Swainson’s Hawks are large hawks with short tails, broad wings, reddish brown to gray upperparts and generally have light bellies. Their plumage varies and they can be seen in light morphs, intermediate morphs and dark morphs.
Title: Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk at the edge of a storm
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/9/2014
Title: Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk calling out to be fed
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/8/2014
Title: Calling juvenile Swainson’s Hawk
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/8/2014
Title: Portrait of a Swainson’s Hawk light morph juvenile
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/8/2014
Title: Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk portrait
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/8/2014
Title: Portrait of a juvenile Swainson’s Hawk
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/8/2014
Title: Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk ground foraging
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/7/2014
Title: Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk running on the ground after prey
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/7/2014
Title: Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk in the grasses in lovely light
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/7/2014
Title: Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk taking flight in poor light
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/7/2014
Title: Light morph Swainson’s Hawk in flight over the Centennial Valley
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 9/7/2014
Title: Swainson’s Hawk in flight next to a hillside
Location: Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/26/2014
Title: Swainson’s Hawk lifting off from a grassy slope
Location: Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/26/2014
Title: Swainson’s Hawk gaining air speed
Location: Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/26/2014
Title: Eye level Swainson’s Hawk
Location: Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/26/2014
Title: Dark morph Swainson’s Hawk on the wing
Location: Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/3/2014
Title: Dark morph Swainson’s Hawk lifting off from a Montana hillside
Location: Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/3/2014
Title: Yawning juvenile Swainson’s Hawk
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/16/2013
Title: Juvenile Swainson’s Hawk fly by near Snowville
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/16/2013
Title: Swainson’s Hawk juvenile on a wire fence
Location: Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 9/16/2013
Title: Sub-adult light morph Swainson’s Hawk
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/26/2013
Title: Light morph Swainson’s Hawk sub-adult
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/26/2013
Title: Swainson’s Hawk in flight over Beaverhead County, Montana
Location: Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/25/2013
Title: Ragged sub-adult Swainson’s Hawk
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/24/2013
Title: Adult Swainson’s Hawk intermediate morph
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 7/22/2013
Title: Swainson’s Hawk in its first spring
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/7/2013
Title: Perched adult Swainson’s Hawk in southwestern Montana
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/7/2013
Title: Adult Swainson’s Hawk with blood on its belly from its last meal
Location: Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Centennial Valley, Beaverhead County, Montana
Date: 6/7/2013