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Swainson's Hawk
Buteo swainsoni
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Common
Swoop
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
30
32
Wikapialpha version
Swainson's Hawk
Buteo swainsoni
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Common
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
Buteo swainsoni
Photo: © Jonathan Eisen (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) is a large bird species in the Accipitriformes order. This species was named after William Swainson, a British naturalist. It is colloquially known as the grasshopper hawk or locust hawk, as it is very fond of Acrididae (locusts and grasshoppers) and will voraciously eat these insects whenever they are available.
Their breeding habitat is prairie and dry grasslands in western North America. They build a stick nest in a tree or shrub or on a cliff edge. This species is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Argentina; it has been recorded as a vagrant in neighboring Chile, in the island countries of the Dominican Republic, and Trinidad and Tobago, and in Norway.
This species or its immediate predecessor is the ancestor of the Galápagos hawk, as demonstrated by recent research. Then later diverged from the mainland birds perhaps 300,000 years ago, a very short time in evolution.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Swainson's hawk, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.
Every Common card has 100 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
DEF 32