{"id":22757,"date":"2014-03-20T05:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=22757"},"modified":"2014-03-20T05:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T11:44:31","slug":"an-unusually-robust-ferruginous-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/an-unusually-robust-ferruginous-hawk\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unusually Robust Ferruginous Hawk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ferruginous Hawk is often described as “massive and robust” but this one appears to have taken that description to extremes.\u00a0 Weighing up to 4 1\/2 lbs (2kg) they are our largest and most powerful buteo so one expects to see an impressive-looking bird but even so I was struck by the prodigious girth of this individual.<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4 II, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I photographed this hawk last week near Capitol Reef National Park.\u00a0 The bird was almost completely hidden by its tree perch before it took off so I didn’t have high hopes of getting any clear shots as it launched but several of them turned out well enough to reveal its prodigious girth.\u00a0 To my eye it almost looks like a flying tank.<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4 II, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0hawk still had to fly by\/through several more tree branches to come out into the clear so this shot was taken 5 frames after the previous one but the bird obviously hasn’t lost any weight in the interim as its ample\u00a0“waistline” is still quite evident.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, 500 f\/4 II, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I think this shot, taken two frames later, reveals the huskiness of the hawk best.<\/p>\n

I don’t pretend to be a raptor authority but I’ve observed and photographed many Ferruginous Hawks over the years and I don’t recall having previously\u00a0seen such a heavy-bodied individual.\u00a0 I’d be interested to know if others with more experience and knowledge of the species think my amateur observation that this bird is unusually rotund\u00a0is an accurate one.\u00a0 Or not.<\/p>\n

All I know for sure is that I wouldn’t want to be a ground squirrel in the crosshairs of this massive hawk.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ferruginous Hawk is often described as “massive and robust” but this one appears to have taken that description to extremes. Weighing up to 4 1\/2 lbs (2kg) they are our largest and most powerful buteo so one expects to see an impressive-looking bird but even so I was struck by the prodigious girth of this individual.<\/p>\n

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