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The white-tailed hawk is a large, stocky, short-tailed buteo that occurs in the US only in south Texas. The adults are lovely birds, strikingly marked in gray and white, with rusty 'shoulders' and a neat touch of black trim; they have a 'helmet' of dark feathers on top of the head that is reminiscent of a peregrine falcon. Young birds are quite different: mostly brownish with a pale rump and typically a white area on the chest. These white-tails were perched on fenceposts and power poles near the Laguna Atascosa Wildlife Refuge in south Texas. Pictures of flying birds are on another page.
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