swainson's hawk

swainson's hawk
noun also swainson hawk
Etymology: after William Swainson died 1855 English naturalist
: a large variable but typically grayish brown to dusky brown hawk (Buteo swainsoni) that breeds from Alaska throughout most of western No. America, winters chiefly in the Argentine to which it migrates in large flocks, and feeds on small rodents and large insects

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