Hawks
Lucy
Red-shouldered Hawk
Lucy came to OWL in 2006 from the Miami Science Center in Florida. She was injured as a fledgling and has a right wing injury.
The Red-shouldered hawk is a medium to large-sized hawk with broad wings, long tail and heavy bodies. They have reddish upper wing coverts (small feathers that overlap the flight feathers) giving the impression of red shoulders. The Red-shouldered hawk is listed as threatened or endangered in many U.S. states.
Sarah
Cooper's Hawk
Sarah came to OWL in 2002 with a fractured right wing.
Cooper’s hawks have short, powerful rounded wings and long, fan shaped tails that allow greater maneuverability to catch prey in dense wooded areas.
John Wayne (JW)
Swainson's Hawk
JW came to OWL in 2001 with an injured wing.
JW is a Swainson’s hawk, often referred to as the “Grasshopper hawk.” When the weather turns cold, these hawks migrate in vast flocks to Southern Argentina where they feast mainly on grasshoppers.
Foggy
Red-Tailed Hawk
Foggy came to OWL in 1995 with a head injury. She is blind in her left eye.
Foggy is a red-tailed hawk, nicknamed “chicken hawk.” A red hawk’s tail becomes red in its second year, and its eyes change from yellow to dark cocoa by the third year.
Cayenne
Red-Tailed Hawk
Cayenne came to OWL in 2004 as a baby after being mobbed by crows that pecked out her left eye.
Red-tailed hawks are a very beneficial bird for the farmer. A female can consume almost 26,000 mice in their lifetime, not counting the mice that she catches for the kids
Truman
Harris Hawk
Truman came to OWL in 2004 from Arizona. He is abnormally imprinted by humans. Imprinting is the process of learning through imitation of another animal or object, typically the parent.
Harris hawks are mostly found in parts of the Southwest such as Arizona, Texas and New Mexico and throughout much of Central America and South America. They prefer sparse woodlands or semi-desert areas.
Sarge
Rough Legged Hawk
Sarge came to OWL in 2006 after suffering a wing fracture of the left wing.
Sarge is a rough legged hawk, named for the feathering of their legs which gives them a “rough leg” look. The rough legged hawk is a large hawk with long, broad wings found in North America, Greenland, Europe and Asia.
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