What's in a name?
Ed Harris must have been basking in the warm glow of Audubon's recognition
in the Latin name of that raptor, as Audubon's drawing of what is now known
as *Parabuteo unicinctus* was labelled
Louisiana Hawk (Buteo harris) in his *The Birds of America
Ed Harris of course! Harris was a friend of J.J. Audubon during the early
1800s. Audubon valued close friendships and often honored those friendships by
naming a bird after that person. In 1837 the Harris’s Hawk, illustrated by
Audubon, was introduced to the world with the publication of Birds
