THE SWAINSON'S HAWK

POCKET GUIDE

• White chin and belly, brown head and bib
• Usually soars to hunt
• Sometimes walks on the ground to catch crickets and grasshoppers
• Hunts small mammals

-Lay 1-5 eggs

-24.9 years

-Stable population

- Lives in open/semi open country, deserts, grasslands, prairies, and scattered trees

-Small mammals
-Grasshoppers and crickets

- longest migrant of any North American raptor. The flight from breeding ground to South American pampas in southern Brazil or Argentina can be as long as 14,000 mi

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