#harriers

[antiqueanimals]

John Cyril Harrison (1898-1985). Montagu's Harrier Flushing a Mallard and Coot. Watercolour.

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[michaelnordeman]

Western marsh harrier/brun kärrhök. Baksjön nature reserve, Värmland, Sweden (30 May 2022).

[spinus-pinus]

Northern Harrier Circus hudsonius

12/21/2025 Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge, California

[uwmspeccoll]

A Harrying Feathursday

The Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius), also known as the Marsh Hawk, is a raptor that breeds throughout Canada and the northernmost United States. It mainly hunts small mammals by flying low to the ground in open areas and surprising their prey. It is thought that harriers diversified with the expansion of grasslands during the Late Miocene and Pliocene. There are 16 species of harrier on every inhabitable continent, but the Northern Harrier is the only North American species.

This wood engraving of harriers is from an illustrations by German wildlife artist Gustav Mützel (1839-1893) and engraved by Karl Jahrmargt (b. 1842), as published in Animate Creation by the English natural history popularizer J. G. Wood (1827-1889), published in New York in three volumes by Selmar Hess in 1885. Our copy of Animate Creaton is a revised edition, adapted to American zoology by the American physician and zoologist Joseph B. Holder, of an earlier British publication by Wood first published in London by George Routledge as The Illustrated Natural History in 1853.

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[pacogabby]

Northern harrier at Farmington Bay, Utah.

[rorah]

And a compilation of portrait commissions i did LOOK AT ALL THESE BEAUTIFUL CROSSES!!! (❤️´艸｀❤️) All of them so pretty and beautiful and handsome and HOT! 💦

[drethelin]

[wachinyeya]

UK’s Rarest Breeding Birds Raise Chicks for First Time in Six Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/uks-rarest-breeding-birds-raise-chicks-for-first-time-in-six-years/

UK’s Rarest Breeding Birds Raise Chicks for First Time in Six Years

The successfully raised chicks are Montagu's harriers, England's rarest breeding bird, and the news was called an "incredible" accomplishmen