A distinctive head because of the white dash above each eye. The sexes are similar and the first year birds are much like adults except they have a brownish edgings on the feathers which turn black or grayish as they mature. Open grasslands and savannahs where tall cacti, tree yuccas and taller pines and oaks grow in open stands. Uses old stick nests of hawks and other species which share the same range and habitat. Both parents incubate.
Remainder is white including a strip above the eye.
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