No doubt, our most familiar hawk is the red-tailed hawk that is often seen perched atop fence posts, telephone poles, and ...

Polytypic. Length 15–19"; wingspan 37–42". A medium-size buteo with rounded wing tips that do not reach the tip of the tail. Adult: brown above with lighter feather edges and some streaking on ...

Billfish – saltwater predators armed with prominent pointy bills – are typically considered to be the fastest swimmers in the oceans. The speediest species of all are thought to be the ...

Polytypic (6 ssp.; nominate in North America). Length 16"; wingspan 34". The smallest North American buteo. Dark morph: adult has an all-dark body with dark wing coverts and silvery flight ...