Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

Female Northern Harrier

Circus hudsonius, also known as the “Marsh Hawk”, cruises low over grasslands and wetlands seasonally from the arctic tundra to Central America. As with owls, feathers forming a disk around the face help to hear prey items as they scan for small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects.

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