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Title: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: Mark Nadler on June 24, 2022, 07:41:03 pm

Comments welcomed.

mark

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: Bob_B on June 25, 2022, 07:05:12 am

What a cutie! Nice shot, Mark.

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: bobfriedman on June 25, 2022, 11:10:28 am

are you sure it is a broad winged?...

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: Mark Nadler on June 25, 2022, 12:41:35 pm

bobfriedman, I am never sure of anything.  What do you think it is?  I came across what I think is a mating pair in SE Ohio busy nailing rabbits..

mark

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: degrub on June 25, 2022, 01:46:03 pm

shots in flight might help confirm. some hawks are notoriously difficult to ID with all the colour and pattern morphs.

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: bobfriedman on June 25, 2022, 02:05:46 pm

Quote from: Mark Nadler on June 25, 2022, 12:41:35 pm

bobfriedman, I am never sure of anything.  What do you think it is?  I came across what I think is a mating pair in SE Ohio busy nailing rabbits..

mark

I would have to see the tail feathers.. but this may be an immature red-tail, hence no red tail feathers. Broad winged hawks have a stripe on the tail and that dark ring around the underside.

images from Cornell U.

(https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/photo/71534291-1280px.jpg)

(https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/photo/306113191-1280px.jpg)

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: Mark Nadler on June 26, 2022, 10:28:51 am

bobfriedman, I think you are correct.  It is a juvenile red-winged hawk.  I attached a portrait of the same bird with bits head swiveled.

mark

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: bobfriedman on June 26, 2022, 10:38:26 am

thought so... also... I should have just posted links to those Cornell images.. sorry

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: Mark Nadler on June 26, 2022, 01:04:57 pm

bobfriedman, if you just look at the varieties of red tailed hawks (some of which do not have obvious red tails) it's pretty easy to get lost in trying to identify them or any other bird.

mark

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: bobfriedman on August 15, 2022, 02:46:02 pm

Quote from: Mark Nadler on June 26, 2022, 01:04:57 pm

bobfriedman, if you just look at the varieties of red tailed hawks (some of which do not have obvious red tails) it's pretty easy to get lost in trying to identify them or any other bird.

mark

the only red-tails that do not have red tails are immature red tail hawks... it is an adult characteristic. that said, broad wings have close but different features.

Title: Re: Broad-winged Hawk
Post by: Mark Nadler on August 15, 2022, 10:35:03 pm

Thanks bob.

mark