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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Turtlebird on April 12, 2009, 07:57:25 PM

Title: Need help with hawk
Post by: Turtlebird on April 12, 2009, 07:57:25 PM

This medium size hawk flew over me the other day, I only managed to get a poor shot of it flying away.  Hope someone can help me ID it.  I think it is perhaps a cooper's hawk?

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Post by: raypye on April 12, 2009, 09:57:06 PM

Shape- long pointed wings
That means that it is not a Coopers Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk or Red-tailed Hawk.
Possable choices:
Northern Harrier- female
Merlin- female
Peregrine Falcon- juvenile
I would go with Northern Harrier- female (subadult)
Rayfield Pye

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Post by: Turtlebird on April 16, 2009, 01:13:36 PM

Ok thanks, I'm going to go with Northern Harrier.  I distinctively remember it having yellow eyes too, and it is the only one that matches.