Submitted by mongrel-cat: Swan mother and swanlings, at the Bicton Park Botanical Gardens. Photo by Richard Meston.
Red-Tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis )
- A field guide image of the various forms, subspecies, and life stages. [x]
- This dark phase seems to have an almost unicolored black-brown body, but from images I’ve seen of others, it probably has some lighter feathers elsewhere on it’s body, especially the tail. [x]
- A rufus phase, it’s undersides a washed out red-brown.[x]
- The bright and nearly clean belly of this light phase is decorated with a band of small freckling. [x]
- This Costa Rican (B. j. costaricensis) has a white neck and upper breast area, the band of freckles separating the white from the reddish brown underparts. [x]
- Sitting on a cactus, this Fuertes (B. j. fuertesi) is showing off it’s creamy white, very lightly streaked underparts and pale tail. [x]
- A white headed Krider’s (B. j. kriderii) with heavy barring of white on it’s wings and back. [x]
- This pied has a heavy amount of white, giving this bird a flashy, striped appearance. [x]
- With a normal red tail and tinges of light orange-tan on it’s wings, this leucistic has a striking, colorful look.[x]
- An all white leucistic. [x]
(via bigemperor)