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Northern Harrier
Characteristics
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Adult Male
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lemon irises
gray hood white around eyes head flat on top |
gray wings with black bar on edge of secondaries , both
top & underside
black patch on primaries |
gray tail with black bands
white rump coverts |
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Adult Female
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yellow irises
brown hood tawny around eyes facial disk with tawny rim head flat on top |
barred, pale gray remiges
dark bar on edge of secondaries |
gray tail with dark bands
outer tail feathers are tawny white rump coverts |
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