A Harris’s Hawk that took off from a street lamp flies into a nearby tree and quickly snatches a full bird’s nest before taking off with a portion of it. The sparse leaves on the tree did not provide much cover for the nest.

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Photo credit: © Alexandra Buxbaum / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: bird, brown, desert, ecosystem, feathers, fierce, harriss, hawk, large, nature, nest, predator, raptor, sonoran, southwestern, stealing, talons, tree, wildlife, wings, wingspan