Editing Harris's hawk (section)

==Relationship with humans==

===Falconry===
Since about 1980, Harris's hawks have been increasingly used in [[falconry]] and are now the most popular hawks in the West (outside of Asia) for that purpose, as they are one of the easiest to train and the most social.<ref name=cyber>{{cite web|url=http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc12787/raptors/parabuteo.html |title=Raptors page |publisher=Users.cybercity.dk |access-date=2013-04-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305133856/http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc12787/raptors/parabuteo.html |archive-date=2013-03-05 }}</ref>

Trained Harris's hawks have been used to remove an unwanted [[columbidae|pigeon]] population from [[London]]'s [[Trafalgar Square]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://effectivebirdcontrol.co.uk/projects/trafalgar-square/ | title=Trafalgar Square |access-date=2025-03-10 |website=effectivebirdcontrol.co.uk|language=en}}</ref> and from the tennis courts at Wimbledon.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mount |first=Harry |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tennis/wimbledon-reaction/rufus-the-hawk-wimbledons-official-bird-scarer/ |title=Introducing Rufus the hawk: the official bird scarer of the Wimbledon Championships|newspaper=Daily Telegraph|date=2017-07-03 |access-date=2018-10-22}}</ref>

Trained Harris's hawks have  been used for [[Bird control|bird abatement]] by falconry experts in Canada and the United States at various locations including airports, resorts, landfill sites, and industrial sites.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mraz|first=Tiffany|title=BLOG: Phoenician resort hires hawks to keep pesky birds away from diners|url=https://www.azfamily.com/shows/arizona_highways_tv/central_arizona/scottsdale/blog-phoenician-resort-hires-hawks-to-keep-pesky-birds-away-from-diners/article_68305aac-6aec-11e9-9653-571e2b4a2250.html |access-date=2020-08-19 |website=AZFamily|language=en}}</ref>

Harris's hawks have frequently escaped from captivity in [[Western Europe]], especially [[Great Britain|Britain]]; they have occasionally bred in the wild, but have not to date become [[naturalisation (biology)|naturalized]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eaton |first1=Mark A. |title=Non-native breeding birds in the UK, 2015–2020 |journal=British Birds |date=2023 |volume=116 |issue=9 |page=486–507 (Harris's Hawk, p.504)}}</ref>

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File:Harris's hawk in flight, Southern Ontario, Canada (captive).jpg|Harris's hawk in flight at a falconry centre
File:Harris's hawk at a licensed falconry centre.jpg|Harris's hawk at a licensed falconry centre, Ontario, Canada
File:Harriss Hawk being with chick leg (7913337978).jpg|Eating a chick's leg
File:Nestlings of Harry's Hawk - Parabuteo unicinctus in Cheshire, England in 2011.jpg|Week-old chicks in captivity
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===In art===
[[John James Audubon]] illustrated Harris's hawk in ''[[The Birds of America]]'' (published in London, 1827–38) as Plate 392 with the title "Louisiana Hawk -''Buteo harrisi''". The image was [[Engraving|engraved]] and colored by the [[Havell family|Robert Havell]], London workshops in 1837. The original [[watercolor painting|watercolor]] by Audubon was purchased by the New York History Society where it remains to this day (January 2009).<ref>{{cite web | title=Audubon's Watercolors Octavo Pl. 392, Harris' Hawk | website=Joel Oppenheimer, Inc. | url=https://www.audubonart.com/shop/product/awc-oct-frm-392-audubon-s-watercolors-octavo-pl-392-harris-hawk-17820 | ref={{sfnref | Joel Oppenheimer, Inc.}} | access-date=2019-10-29}}</ref>