Red-Tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis

"Heavy-bodied and broad-chested tapering abruptly to tail ... Bill fairly short but deep-based, so that line of culmen is fairly continuous with shallow flattish crown ... suggestion of a belly band ...." (The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America, p. 174-175).

Another perspective.

Photo taken with a Nikon D90 using a Nikon 400mm f/5.6 lens.

December 31, 2011.