Observations of Red-Tailed Hawks Capturing Wild Ducks in North Dakota

Authors

Robert K. Murphy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Date of this Version

1994

Comments

Published in Prairie Naturalist 26(4): December 1994. Used by permission.

Abstract

Ducks (Anserifonnes; Anatinae) are preyed on by red-tailed hawks (Buteo jamaicensis) in the northern Great Plains of North America, yet I found no published, direct observations of captures of wild ducks by red-tailed hawks in the region. I made the following observations in south central Burke County, northwestern North Dakota.