Northern Harrier
Circus hudsonius
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Hawks, Eagles, and Kites
Call and song
Recording 1 · call
Recording 2
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About the Northern Harrier
Medium-sized hawk with long tail and thin wings. Flies with wings held in a V-shape, low over open fields and marshes, listening for rodents lurking below. Distinctive foraging behavior and conspicuous white patch on rump in all plumages. Females and immatures are warm brown. Adult males gray above and whitish below with black wingtips.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 37 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- France
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
