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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: mr.sharp-photo on January 24, 2010, 07:49:30 PM

Title: red-tailed hawk?
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on January 24, 2010, 07:49:30 PM

(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4301448539_4fa590874b_o.jpg)

not sure if its a juvenile one or not. looked relatively small.

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Post by: raypye on January 24, 2010, 09:10:36 PM

The size of the bird has nothing to do with its age.
There is a size differance between the sexes (males are smaller), and there is a size differance between the various subspecies of Red-tailed Hawk.
Age:(eastern subspecies) Tail of juvenile- brown, Tail of adult- red
Eye colour- The iris is yellow in a juvenile and darkens as the bird ages.
Rayfield Pye

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Post by: Moira on January 25, 2010, 03:50:03 PM

Wow -  how close did you get to him?  I can't seem to get anywhere near a hawk.