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? And now, back to Albatrossity, for Winter Hawks of 2020.
Albatrossity
Time for another installment of the Winter Hawks of Kansas, methinks. As you know if you have driven through the state in winter, we are blessed with a tremendous number and variety of raptors at this time of year.
Some are residents, many are migrants from the north. Some return to the same territory year after year, while others, particularly the youngsters who hatched out last summer, have to work hard to find an unoccupied territory and survive the winter. And every year, some don’t return, having succumbed to one of the myriad hazards of migration between here and, in some cases, Alaska or the Canadian Arctic.
So here’s a sampler from the season so far, with some familiar faces and lots of new ones.
Red-shouldered Hawks (Buteo lineatus) are one of the resident species, and are becoming quite common in my area, This one was photographed on our annual Christmas Bird Count, and was one of three I saw that day. But 30 years ago it would have been a hotline bird, and a report of this bird on the CBC would have earned me a grilling from the compiler about the details of the sighting, how I eliminated other species, etc. Today it is not exactly a ho-hum bird here, but the fact that I found three in my area tells you that they are doing quite well here.
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