ID please
Aug 8, 2023 11:29:03 #
I think this is some type of hawk but the merlin app can't id... can anyone I'd this guy? Not the greatest pic but we were on Lake Darling in Carpio ND and it was windy and smokey!
Aug 8, 2023 11:44:50 #
CindyHouk wrote:
I think this is some type of hawk but the merlin app can't id... can anyone I'd this guy? Not the greatest pic but we were on Lake Darling in Carpio ND and it was windy and smokey!
That looks like an Osprey to me.
Aug 8, 2023 11:55:28 #
Aug 8, 2023 12:15:36 #
pmorin wrote:
That looks like an Osprey to me.
I dont think the head looks right for an osprey. And it's a lot larger than an osprey.
Aug 8, 2023 12:18:41 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
A Ferruginous Hawk
I think your right! Just looked them up and it sure does look like one of them.
Aug 8, 2023 13:43:13 #
Are you sure? This is a Ferruginous hawk from the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum raptor free-flight show in Tucson.
Aug 8, 2023 14:10:20 #
terryMc wrote:
Are you sure? This is a Ferruginous hawk from the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum raptor free-flight show in Tucson.
Based on what I see in the photograph I stand by my identification. Ferruginous Hawks are summer breeders where the OP took the picture. They are relatively common in the winter months in the grasslands of SE Arizona
Aug 8, 2023 14:32:55 #
Curmudgeon wrote:
Based on what I see in the photograph I stand by my identification. Ferruginous Hawks are summer breeders where the OP took the picture. They are relatively common in the winter months in the grasslands of SE Arizona
So this would then be a juvenile that has not yet left the breeding area? Would that be why all the white feathers? I can find pictures online of juvies with more white, but this one has so much. I can't enhance it enough to get a really good look.
Aug 8, 2023 15:04:19 #
Could be molting into adult plumage, maybe just got through taking a bath. In any event it looks slightly battered.
Aug 8, 2023 17:39:59 #
CindyHouk wrote:
I think this is some type of hawk but the merlin app can't id... can anyone I'd this guy? Not the greatest pic but we were on Lake Darling in Carpio ND and it was windy and smokey!
How about an immature American Eagle?
Aug 8, 2023 17:57:32 #
davidrb wrote:
How about an immature American Eagle?
Nothing right for an eagle
Aug 8, 2023 18:47:12 #
Aug 8, 2023 19:26:00 #
davidrb wrote:
How about an immature American Eagle?
Not a juvenile eagle. I am very familiar with them.
Aug 9, 2023 06:11:35 #
CindyHouk wrote:
I think this is some type of hawk but the merlin app can't id... can anyone I'd this guy? Not the greatest pic but we were on Lake Darling in Carpio ND and it was windy and smokey!
Aug 9, 2023 11:35:50 #
The ID feature in Apple Photos says this is a (juvenile?) red tailed hawk, but to me it doesn’t look right for that.
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