Northern Goshawk
by Judy Palkimas
Title
Northern Goshawk
Artist
Judy Palkimas
Medium
Photograph - Photography - Photographs
Description
I took this picture of this Goshawk in my backyard. He didn't have any fear as I came close with the camera as you can see in this photo. Here is some information about the Goshawks.The Northern Goshawk is a fairly large hawk with a long tail having a broad, dark sub-terminal band and three to four narrower dark band. They have rounded wing tips, and a conspicuous pale eyebrow. The sexes are similar with adults having a dark crown, blue-gray back, white under parts with fine, dense gray barring and conspicuous white under tail coverts. The eyes of adults are deep ruby-red and the feet are yellow. Immature Northern Goshawks are brown above, buffy below, with dense, blurry streaking. The under tail coverts are dark-streaked and the tail has wavy dark bands bordered with white and a thin white tip. The eyes of immature Northern Goshawks are yellowish, deepening in color to red as they mature. The total length is 53 to 66 cm, with females averaging larger than males. The Northern Goshawk has the widest distribution of the world�s 50 species of accipiter�s. It is a permanent resident in North America from Alaska east to Labrador and Newfoundland and south throughout much of the western U.S., along the northern tier of states from Minnesota to New York, in northern New Jersey and New England, and in the Appalachian Mts. of Maryland and West Virginia. It also winters in the Great Plains and across the central U.S. Goshawks are generalists when it comes to foraging, hunting beneath the forest canopy in dense and open stands and at forest-grassland and forest-shrub land where they take a wide variety of prey that includes forest grouse, woodpeckers, lagomorphs, and squirrels.
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June 9th, 2013
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Comments (13)
Heide Stover
Wow! How great to be able to get that close! I love raptors but have a hard time get close enough to get a good shot!
Randy Rosenberger
Judy, a totally grandiose capture of this awesome goshawk, and thanks for sharing this natural avian beauty with us! fave and vote
Deb Halloran
Judy, What a great capture! I am amazed that you got so close..excellent work! vtd
Judy Palkimas replied:
Deb, thank you so much! As you can see in the photo he had one eye me watching me.