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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 strikingly marked in gray and white, with neat touch of rusty 'shoulders' and 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 soaring overhead on windy days in the Laguna Atascosa Wildlife Refuge in south Texas, and on Mustang Island near Corpus Christi. Pictures of perched birds are on this page.
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