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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_984_18110763.1198786736256 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, Most hawks can hover, but to different degrees while hunting. The champion is the Rough-legged, although other buteos, including Red-tails, can hover for a short time. So can Ospreys. If you ever go to Europe and see Eurasian Kestrels, they characteristically hover over motorways waiting for road-kill. There is an old name for them - "wind-hover". European Buzzards (the equivalent there of our Red-tail) also hover regularly. I don't know if any N.American falcons or accipiters hover, but it's not really their flight style. There probably wouldn't be any point in their usual habitat. Many hawks including Red-tails will also "kite" - which means facing into a strong wind and just using their wings and posture to briefly stay in 1 place relative to the ground - a bit like people can spread their arms and lean into a strong wind. (That expression is mentioned in a couple of books I have, but not in any on-line dictionary I could find!). Richard On Dec 27, 2007 2:06 PM, Angela Joudrey <aljoudrey@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Do all hawks have the ability to "hover"? > > I noticed one this am in an area where there are red tails hawks, but > I was unable to id it. > > Just wondering, > > Angela- > now living in a new "bird heaven" area of Windsor > -- > Angela Slaunwhite > aljoudrey@eastlink.ca > -- ################# Dr.Richard Stern, 70 Exhibition St. Kentville, NS, Canada B4N 4K9 Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ################### ------=_Part_984_18110763.1198786736256 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi,<br><br>Most hawks can hover, but to different degrees while hunting. The champion is the Rough-legged, although other buteos, including Red-tails, can hover for a short time. So can Ospreys. If you ever go to Europe and see Eurasian Kestrels, they characteristically hover over motorways waiting for road-kill. There is an old name for them - "wind-hover". European Buzzards (the equivalent there of our Red-tail) also hover regularly. I don't know if any N.American falcons or accipiters hover, but it's not really their flight style. There probably wouldn't be any point in their usual habitat. Many hawks including Red-tails will also "kite" - which means facing into a strong wind and just using their wings and posture to briefly stay in 1 place relative to the ground - a bit like people can spread their arms and lean into a strong wind. (That expression is mentioned in a couple of books I have, but not in any on-line dictionary I could find!). <br><br>Richard<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 27, 2007 2:06 PM, Angela Joudrey <aljoudrey@eastlink.ca> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Do all hawks have the ability to "hover"?<br><br>I noticed one this am in an area where there are red tails hawks, but<br>I was unable to id it.<br><br>Just wondering,<br><br>Angela-<br>now living in a new "bird heaven" area of Windsor <br><font color="#888888">--<br>Angela Slaunwhite<br>aljoudrey@eastlink.ca<br></font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>#################<br>Dr.Richard Stern, <br> 70 Exhibition St.<br>Kentville, NS, Canada<br>B4N 4K9<br><br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br>B0P 1T0<br><br>rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca<br><a href="mailto:rbstern@xcountry.tv"> rbstern@xcountry.tv</a><br>sternrichard@gmail.com<br>################### ------=_Part_984_18110763.1198786736256--
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