Apart from the Harris's hawks, we didn't get a chance to pick up any more birds until late on the second day.

One of the most exciting things you can do with Harris's hawks is what's called 'flying a cast'.

We all donned gloves and picked up a couple of Harris's hawks.

The Harris's hawks he observed, however, flocked in relatively large groups and used sophisticated hunting tactics with great success.

Trained Harris's hawks have been used to remove an unwanted pigeon population from London's Trafalgar Square.

And in the Southwest, family groups of Harris's hawks assemble each winter morning, divide into platoons and scour the countryside for rabbits.

One day, when I can afford it, I'd love to have two Harris's hawks - one for hunting and one for demonstration.

First, Megan flew Jesse, one of two captive-bred Harris's hawks, a bird native to the American Southwest and popular with falconers.

HARRIS'S hawks, like lions, hunt in cooperative groups to improve their chances of catching prey, a biologist at the University of New Mexico has discovered.

On the afternoon of the second day, we put one of the Harris's hawks on a creance, as we would have if we had been training it, and tried a spot of flying.

The park's forests provide habitat for wildlife such as pumas, chillas, culpeos, pudúes, coypus, Harris's hawks, lesser grisons, Molina's hog-nosed skunks, and the rare monitos del monte.

Harris's hawks, for instance, use them only in winter, when a shortage of smaller quarry like small birds forces them to go after bigger game like jack rabbits, which are several times the size of a hawk.

Normally, with Dawn, I would just walk straight towards the perch, but these Harris's hawks were really eager, and bated immediately the breeze got in their feathers; that is, they tried to take off and fly back on their own.

The scientist, James C. Bednarz, carried out his study near Carlsbad, N.M. By attaching radios to some of the Harris's hawks in the region, he tracked their movements and observed their methods of attack on rabbits and other prey.

Parabuteo unicinctus is the sole representative of this genus worldwide.

Harris's Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus)

The Harris's Hawk or Harris Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) formerly known as the Bay-winged Hawk or Dusky Hawk, is a medium-large bird of prey which breeds from the southwestern United States south to Chile and central Argentina.