Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Janet Patterson on March 07, 2015, 02:57:25 PM

Title: Hawk ID assistance
Post by: Janet Patterson on March 07, 2015, 02:57:25 PM

I saw this huge hawk in flight, and watched it land in the tree, at Leslie Street spit last weekend (March 1).
I would appreciate help identifying it.

Title: Re: Hawk ID assistance
Post by: thouc on March 07, 2015, 03:21:19 PM

Looks like a juvenile Red-tailed Hawk

Title: Re: Hawk ID assistance
Post by: Janet Patterson on March 07, 2015, 05:59:13 PM

Thank you! I missed that, because I didn't think red-tails had bands on their tails, but I see from my guidebook that "Eastern first year" has a brown tail with many thin bands. I have lots to learn!