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Theretra latreillii, the pale brown hawk moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae described by William Sharp Macleay in 1826. It is found in most of Asia, including Borneo , China , Hong Kong , the Philippines , Taiwan and also throughout the tropical and temperate regions of Australia .
The alaska red-tailed hawk was described by Joseph Grinnell (Glacier Bay, Alaska) in 1909 as "always blackest dorsally, and decidedly smaller" than a "large series" of the western red-tailed hawk (B. j. calurus). [3] B. j. alascensis and B. j. calurus were previously considered to be the same subspecies.
The red-tailed hawk is now placed in the genus Buteo that was erected by French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1799. [15] [16] In flight showing the red tail A red-tailed hawk hovers in the wind. The red-tailed hawk is a member of the subfamily Buteoninae, which includes about 55 currently recognized species.
On the pale morph hawk-eagle's underside, the base colour is white to buff overlaid with bold black to dark brown streaking; the streaking tends to be more subtle on abdomen but more obvious on the legs. Beyond the typical pale morph, some subspecies but especially N. c. liminaeetus tend to have a further intermediate and a dark morph. The ...
At the south end of the park, a hawk couple dubbed Pale Male Junior (or simply "Junior") and Charlotte nested on the Trump Park Hotel on Central Park South in 2005. [ 24 ] Following reports of red-tails attempting to nest on or near the Plaza Hotel at the southeast corner of Central Park, a pair of red-tails built a nest in a tree on the edge ...
The pale morph of the closely related but more slender rough-legged species is best distinguished by its darker coloration, with a broad black tail band and a dark band across the chest. The dark morph Rough-leg is more a slaty coloration than the more brownish dark morph ferruginous.
[6] [7] Adult B. j. calurus are usually rangier and darker than the eastern red-tailed hawk (B. j. borealis), with pale individuals usually having a richer tawny base color (with occasionally a pale rufous color showing around the chest or neck), typically a heavily streaked breast and belly band, a brownish throat, dark barring on the flanks ...
Krider's hawk or Krider's red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis kriderii) [1] is a subspecies or color morph of red-tailed hawk. [2] Authorities vary in their treatment of the taxon . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was named after John Krider , the gunsmith from Philadelphia who collected the type specimen, which is preserved in the collection of the ...