HAWK ID WANTED
Jul 6, 2020 17:46:37 #
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Jul 6, 2020 18:09:57 #
Agree with the redtail hawk ID. To the OP: next time please include the corner of the planet in which seen 
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Or add your location to your user info - thanks!Jul 6, 2020 18:50:18 #
First-year redtails don't look like that.
https://hawkwatch.org/blog/item/992-1st-year-red-tailed-hawks-molting-in-fall
The dark beak, dark eye, and mottled-but-mostly brown feathering are classic for recent fledgling eagle.
https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2017/11/22/a-guide-to-aging-bald-eagles-and-how-to-distinguish-immature-bald-eagles-from-golden-eagles/
https://hawkwatch.org/blog/item/992-1st-year-red-tailed-hawks-molting-in-fall
The dark beak, dark eye, and mottled-but-mostly brown feathering are classic for recent fledgling eagle.
https://www.featheredphotography.com/blog/2017/11/22/a-guide-to-aging-bald-eagles-and-how-to-distinguish-immature-bald-eagles-from-golden-eagles/
Jul 6, 2020 19:18:05 #
HiFromSusan wrote:
looks like a juvenile eagle to me.
Beak is too round, some type of hawk as curmudgeon says.
Jul 6, 2020 20:04:00 #
Rongnongno wrote:
Beak is too round, some type of hawk as curmudgeon says.
Agree with young hawk but by no means an expert. This is a recently fledged RTH (in the Bay area), has dark eyes, dark beak and mostly brown feathers on back (hard to see in this pic):
Jul 6, 2020 23:16:52 #
If limeybiker is from the UK, then this bird of prey may be what they call a Common Buzzard.
Check out this YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MGzoiXUKbo
Marshall
Check out this YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MGzoiXUKbo
Marshall
Jul 7, 2020 05:42:01 #
larryim
Loc: Ohio
The belly band would indicate red-tailed hawk. The beak is shaped like a hawk beak and not as large as an eagle beak. It is a juvenile, but I don’t know how old.
Jul 7, 2020 07:45:44 #
Jul 7, 2020 09:31:22 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Agree with the redtail hawk ID. To the OP: next time please include the corner of the planet in which seen Or add your location to your user info - thanks!
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Jul 7, 2020 13:30:44 #
limeybiker wrote:
I snapped this hawk on the golf course this morning.
Sorry about the location I live in Ocala Florida, it looked rather too large for a hawk and my first thoughts were an immature Bald Eagle, I have seen many Red Tailed and red Shouldered Hawks, as well as Bald Eagles, I have photographed a Bald Eagle in the middle of the twelfth Fairway from the back door.
Jul 8, 2020 13:31:34 #
limeybiker wrote:
I snapped this hawk on the golf course this morning.
Merlin lists a "Dark Morph" Red-Tailed Hawk. This looks like it could be one.
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