Photographs of zone-tailed Hawks and the birds on the Arizona desert and other parts of the state

Zone-tail Hawk

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Zone-tail Hawk

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This hawk is about 20 inches or so tall with approximately a 5 foot or less wing span.

Photographed flying over the south rim of the Grand Canyon. In the photos the bird looks all black and the book says Grayish Black all over with a banmded tail feathers. You can see the white tail band in these photos. It only flew over once the day I was there so did not get very good shots of it.

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New images as of 09/15/06

The zone-tailed hawks fly very high making very difficult to get good images of them.

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Earlier photos.

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The book says bright yellow feet and cere**

**Bare unfeathered , thick skin adjoining the forehead at the base of the upper mandible(**)

(**) Mandible either half upper or lower of a birds bill.

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August 20, 2005

I was able to get a few more shots. It only flies in once a day,
some times in the morning and some times in the afternoon,
so, you just stand along the canyon wall and wait if you want a photo :-((.

So, with camera in hand I waited, and waited, and waited.
Then, someone yelled out, OH, there's a condor, and I looked up to see my Zone-tailed Hawk
soaring and looking to grab another canyon ground squirrel.
Whipping the D70s with an 80 to 400 mm lens on it to my eye
I snapped off a few shots and it flew off east not to be seen again that day.

Here's what I got. Nothing to brag about but I still am putting them on.