Ferruginous Hawk – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Ferruginous Hawk Pano

By Mia McPherson|June 26th, 2013|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, birds of prey, Buteo regalis, clouds, desert, fall, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, light morph, pano, raptors, sky|

I love the raised wings of the Ferruginous Hawk, the bright blue sky with just a hint of clouds and the regal raptor soaring above me and the Stansbury Mountains in Tooele County, Utah

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Ferruginous Hawk in Montana

By Mia McPherson|June 6th, 2013|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Montana|Tags: adult, Buteo regalis, Buteos, Centennial Valley, Ferruginous Hawk, gate, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Montana, light morph, perched, ranchlands, raptors|

Ferruginous Hawks fascinate me, they are large, handsome and regal raptors. This one just appears to me to be surveying its kingdom from the top of a ranch gate in the Centennial Valley.

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Immature Red-tailed, Rough-legged, Ferruginous and Swainson’s Hawks

By Mia McPherson|January 27th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Davis County, Ferruginous Hawks, Montana, Red-tailed Hawks, Rough-legged Hawks, Swainson's Hawks, Utah|Tags: bird ID, birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteo lagopus, Buteo regalis, Buteo swainsoni, Buteos, Ferruginous Hawk, hawks, immature, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, Rough-legged Hawk, Swainson's Hawk|

Today I thought I would post images of the juvenile Buteos that I see most often in Utah and Montana, they are Red-tailed, Rough-legged, Ferruginous and Swainson's Hawks.

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Ferruginous Hawk in Beaverhead County, Montana

By Mia McPherson|August 18th, 2012|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Ferruginous Hawks, Montana, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo regalis, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, flying, grasses, hawk, hawks, largest hawks, perched, raptors, valley|

Ferruginous Hawks are the largest hawks found in North America. They inhabit low elevation, open areas in the western United States and some locations in southwestern Canada and winter in southwestern US and Mexico.

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Ferruginous Hawk in Tooele County, Utah

By Mia McPherson|February 8th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, balanced, birds of prey, Buteo regalis, Buteos, desert, fall, feathered legs, fence post, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lift off, light morph, perched, sky, Tooele County, Utah, west desert, wing lift|

There aren't many people in the west desert of Utah thus the raptors and other birds that live there are not habituated to people so they are very skittish even when using a mobile blind.

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Ferruginous Hawk – A Regal Raptor

By Mia McPherson|November 7th, 2011|Categories: Birds, Ferruginous Hawks, Tooele County, Utah|Tags: adult, autumn, birds of prey, Buteo regalis, Buteos, desert, fall, Ferruginous Hawk, flight, flying, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, lift off, light morph, raptors, sky, west desert|

Ferruginous Hawks are the largest hawks found in North America, the "regalis" in the latin name means "kingly" or "regal" and I have to agree with those descriptions.

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