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The purple finch is the state bird of New Hampshire. This list of birds of New Hampshire includes species documented in the U.S. state of New Hampshire and accepted by New Hampshire Rare Bird Committee (NHRBC) and New Hampshire Audubon (NHA). [1] As of February 2021, the list contained 425 species.
The northern cardinal is the state bird of seven states, followed by the western meadowlark as the state bird of six states. The District of Columbia designated a district bird in 1938. [ 4 ] Of the five inhabited territories of the United States , American Samoa and Puerto Rico are the only ones without territorial birds.
Bird: Purple finch Haemorhous purpureus: 1957 Raptor: Red-tailed Hawk [3] ... New Hampshire Red: 2018 Berry: Blackberry [4] 2017 Spider: Daring Jumping Spider [5 ...
Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae Accipitridae is a family of birds of prey and includes the osprey, hawks, eagles, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. These birds have very large powerful hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong legs, powerful talons, and keen eyesight. Rough-legged hawk
In North America, this and the related loggerhead shrike are commonly known as butcherbirds for their habit of impaling prey on thorns or spikes. [5] A folk name from Michigan is winter butcherbird. [6] The Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation people of Old Crow, Yukon call it Tzi kwut go katshi lyi. [7] As a passerine, or song bird, it has no talons.
The size of prey ranges from 0.001 g (3.5 × 10 −5 oz) insects to 25 g (0.88 oz) mice or reptiles. [3] Desert iguana pinned to a white rhatany shrub by a loggerhead shrike. In California. They are not true birds of prey, as they lack the large, strong talons used to catch and kill prey. [4]
The placement of the New World vultures has been unclear since the early 1990s. The reason for this is the controversial systematic history of the New World vultures as they were assumed to be more related to (or a subfamily of) Ciconiidae (the storks) after Sibley and Ahlquist work on their DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late ...
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