{"id":114,"date":"2010-12-23T22:34:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T05:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wildnaturephotos.com\/Blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2010-12-23T22:46:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T05:46:51","slug":"short-tailed-hawk-plumage-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildnaturephotos.com\/Blog\/2010\/12\/short-tailed-hawk-plumage-variations\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-tailed Hawk Plumage Variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth straight year, a Short-tailed Hawk with atypical plumage has overwintered in Tucson (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/STHA-Tucson\" target=\"_blank\">bit.ly\/STHA-Tucson<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Helen and Noel Snyder, Narca Moore-Craig, Rose Ann Rowlett and I photographed and studied a Short-tailed Hawk nest\u00a0(<em>Buteo brachyurus<\/em>) in the Chiricahua Mountains, a part of the Sky Islands region of the Southwest. The majority of Short-tailed Hawks observed in the Sky Islands have been light-morph birds, including the individuals at the nest we photographed. This is in contrast with Florida, where dark-morph individuals predominate. Our article on the Nesting of Short-tailed Hawks in the Southwest is currently in press (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernfieldornithologists.org\/journal.php\" target=\"_blank\">www.westernfieldornithologists.org\/journal.php<\/a>), with an expected publication date of early 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Rich is making several large JPGs available for those interested in comparing the plumage of the typical light-morph Short-tailed Hawks with the atypical plumage of the Tucson bird. These images may not be re-posted without written authorization. The basis for the atypical plumage of the Tucson Short-tailed Hawk is currently uncertain.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"www.wildnaturephotos.com\/Public\/Short-tailed-Hawk\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wildnaturephotos.com\/Public\/Short-tailed-Hawk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-116\" title=\"STHA_Th\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wildnaturephotos.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/STHA_Th.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wildnaturephotos.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/STHA_Th.jpg 482w, https:\/\/www.wildnaturephotos.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/STHA_Th-300x81.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the fourth straight year, a Short-tailed Hawk with atypical plumage has overwintered in Tucson (bit.ly\/STHA-Tucson). In 2007, Helen and Noel Snyder, Narca Moore-Craig, Rose Ann Rowlett and I photographed and studied a Short-tailed Hawk nest\u00a0(Buteo brachyurus) in the Chiricahua Mountains, a part of the Sky Islands region of the Southwest. 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