| Northern Harrier | ||
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Classification(s) : | Predator, Prey |
| Cat Name : | Hawk | |
| Common Name : | Northern Harrier | |
| Scientific Name : | Circus cyaneus | |
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| Physical Description : | A medium-sized gray or brown hawk. |
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| Physical Statistics : | Males |
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| Behavior : | A hawk that hunts prarie, marsh, wetlands, and logged forests. |
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| Social Organization : | Solitary unless breeding, roosts communally during the winter. |
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| Approval Level : | None; Winter attacks by Northern Harriers would be rather common throughout the area the cats live in. | |
| Kill Difficulty : | High; These large hawks have deadly beaks and talons. |
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| Training Level : | Specialty - Raptor; Normally too high for a cat to pursue, they must be ambushed when they are hunting. |
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| Hunting Tactic : | Small Raptors | |
| Food Quality : | High; Large and full of rich, nutritious flesh. | |
| Danger Level : | Medium (Kits and small apprentices are vulnerable); Northern Harriers will strike against a cat they see as easy prey. |
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