![]() ![]() regalis), a handsome bird with white belly and chest, and reddish legs and wings this species is apparently recovering from a population crash and is seen more often than several decades ago. swainsoni), which preys on ground squirrels, is one of the common grasslands hawks. playpterus), a fairly common nester in deciduous woodlands near water, and transient elsewhere. The smallest buteo, about the size of a crow, is the broad-winged hawk ( B. The red-tailed hawk ( Buteo jamaicensis), a widespread hawk which is a common nester in the aspen parklands, has a dark phase, a light phase and the typical red-tailed, white-chested form. As they can occur in a number of colours of plumages, they are very confusing to identify. Both eagles are seen in migration farther south.įive broad-winged buteos occur in the province these common and widely distributed hawks are typically predators of small Mammals. The dark-brown golden eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos) feeds on small mammals it usually nests on cliffs, and will be seen in the summer in the southern badlands, along some of the large river valleys, and near Lake Athabasca. The bald eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is one of the fish-feeding eagles found around water the adults, with their distinctive white heads and tails, nest throughout the boreal forest, on the edges of lakes and rivers. There are two types of eagles in the province. In the boreal forest and northern parklands this large dark-backed, white-bellied bird with a black eye mask breeds near the water where it feeds it is seen in migration in the grasslands. ![]() The osprey ( Pandion haliaetus), sometimes called “fish hawk,” nests in large structures on dead Trees or telephone poles, which the pair uses annually. The accipitrids found in Saskatchewan are of six distinctive types: ospreys, eagles, buteos, accipiters, harriers, and kites. Saskatchewan has 13 of the 24 species which regularly occur in North America all are migratory, except for the northern goshawk. Hawks are distinguished from Falcons by their generally broader wings and lack of “tooth” on the upper beak. This is one of the families of Birds in which the females are larger than the males in eagles they may be as much as 30% larger. They are all distinguished by their strong beaks and feet, used for catching and tearing apart their prey, but are quite diverse. These medium-sized to very large day-flying predatory birds are found throughout the world. Hawks and eagles belong to the family Accipitridae, along with ospreys, kites, harriers, and Old World vultures. ![]()
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