Harris's hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) landing (Flight demonstration) - (Published by GETTY IMAGES)

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Forty eight metres at 13:48pm on Friday 26th May 2023 off Richards Trail and Herd Road at the Pacific Northwest Raptors in North Cowichan on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.

 

 

Harris's hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus), was formerly known as the bay-winged hawk, dusky hawk,or wolf hawk, and known in Latin America as peuco, a medium-large bird of prey that breeds from the southwestern United States south to Chile, central Argentina, and Brazil

 

 

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LATITUDE: N 48d 49m 16.00s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 39m 36.60s

ALTITUDE: 48.0m

 

 

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PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 26.60MB

 

 

 

 

 

 

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