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Hawk head different angles ref
Published: 2010-10-25 01:48:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 54355; Favourites: 1765; Downloads: 1804
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Raptor/hawk head at different angles. These are all the same Red-tailed Hawk, but he molted from juvenile to adult plumage while I was collecting these pictures so there is color variation to the feathers; the lighting also changed day-to-day. This bird is not a falconry bird, but rather a permanent resident at a raptor rehabilitation center. He came in from the wild with a badly-healed coracoid break and cannot fly very well. His upper beak is over-long, so keep that in mind if you're trying to draw a realistic, natural raptor. I hope this makes a decent reference for people drawing birds of prey, gryphons, etc. Feel free to download for personal use. Not for photo-manipulation. If anyone is interested in a similar thing with owls, kestrels, another species of hawk, raptor feet, etc let me know.Great-horned Owl: [link]
Barn Owl: [link]
Turkey Vulture: [link]
Golden Eagle: [link]
American Kestrel: [link]
Burrowing Owl: [link]
Icterid (Brewer's Blackbird): [link]
Raptor feet: [link]
10/26: Wow, the daily deviation was a surprise! I'm glad this is turning out useful for so many people. My gallery has a lot of other bird of prey photos that I usually allow people to use for reference if they ask first and credit back to the original, so feel free to take a look.
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Wow, great collection of hawk head shots! Thank you so much for putting this together, I can see this coming in use 
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My gryphon-drawing-addiction is totally why I made this
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This is incredibly helpful...I always have trouble with birds. What a wonderful resource!
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Holy crapping pumkin muffins! My SAVIOR!!!
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Lol. (I do love pumpkin muffins, but I'm not sure about holy crapping pumpkin muffins 
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Yeah, me either.
It would taste sort of funky.
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This... is an excellent reference for gryphon / raptor heads. Thank you so much for sharing; definitely worthwhile! 
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This is really amazing! That took some real dedication!
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I like how you got pics with his feathers ruffled up XD Great references!
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He's beautiful!
I'd love to see photorefs of their wings -- unless you already have something like that. xD
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O3o these are great! i would love to see more of these. its hard to find really good bird Refs.
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What a gorgeous hawk! It's hard to find such great closeup photos as it is, so this is really great!!
If you could do one for owls -maybe just owl feet- that would be beyond awesome!
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I think I'll get an owl one done next--not sure whether great-horned or burrowing--and for feet I might put different species together because I think the differences between osprey, eagle, red tail, swainsons, harrier, kite, peregrine, kestel, new world vulture etc are really cool. You can tell species apart with just feet!
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This will be very helpful when I make my Windsonde charrie!
Ones on Golden Eagles, and raptor feet, would just be amazing.
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this is great! i would love to see some raptor feet, i think they're hard to draw, some refs would be fantastic!
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This is really great, especially someone like me who is always searching for excellent reference materials, and Birds are hard for me to find head shots. So this is wonderful, thank you! I would love more if you had the time to do it
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totally awesome bunch of pictures! this will be very helpful, thank you so much!
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thit is pretty darn cool 
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Amazing ref, thanks so much for the work you put into it!
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Beautiful, but man does he ever need his beak coped in most of these!
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It's a bit exasperating for him too, since he's not fond of coping either
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Poor dude! He's a cutie, regardless! I love redtails so much. We have one with a bit of a twisted beak as well, and coping can be a real challenge.
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I know! He gets his beak coped frequently, but it grows very fast and, unfortunately, more so on one side than the other which gets to be a real problem if a month goes by without coping.
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I'd like to have an owl- one! Relly! I love birds of prey! This is really amazing!
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Great-horned owl is now finished ([link] ); a barn owl will be coming soon!
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What a unique and helpful ref!
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That's a marvelous idea. And also quite a handsome model, I must say.
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Personally, I think he's a bit goofy-looking
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Perhaps if I spent more time around them, I'd be able to make the same kind of distinctions. As it is, I'm pretty much on the, "Ooh, that's a bird!" level.
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I still think Ooh that's a bird! whenever I see one. Birds are fun
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This is incredibly useful to me, what with all the griffins I draw- I would love to see this with other birds, definitely
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Oh yes, I know an obliging turkey vulture
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That would be wonderful!
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What a SUPER idea!!!!! Keepem coming I say
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