Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Jaedon on April 22, 2007, 08:36:34 PM

Title: RFI - raptor of some kind
Post by: Jaedon on April 22, 2007, 08:36:34 PM

my guess is RT hawk but the body colours look wrong

(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9437/rfi01ss9.jpg)

(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8582/rfi02rj8.jpg)

(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4783/rfi03xn7.jpg)

(http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/2681/rfi04qd1.jpg)

(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6985/rfi05od6.jpg)

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Post by: birddog on April 22, 2007, 10:10:27 PM

Sometimes RT lack the belly band but I think from the first pic thats what it is.

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Post by: Jaedon on April 23, 2007, 10:26:32 AM

could it be a juvenile then with the lack of the belly band?  That may be what threw my original ID off.

Title: Ref: RFI
Post by: JTF on April 23, 2007, 07:54:04 PM

Quote from: "Jaedon"

could it be a juvenile then with the lack of the belly band?  That may be what threw my original ID off.

Red-Tailed hawk.

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Post by: Carl-Adam on April 23, 2007, 09:59:27 PM

It is a lighter eastern red tail adult, colour variations are present in all populations of red tails. cheers

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Post by: Jaedon on April 24, 2007, 08:11:04 AM

Thanks guys.  Now to hunt him down again and get some better shots.  There's a decent area nearby there where I can hide in teh bushes and use them as a blind.

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Post by: Bruce Colvin on April 24, 2007, 08:22:12 AM

The Red-tailed Hawk had an incredible variety of plumages. There is the " Hanlans race" that is almost solid black. Then there is the formerly called " Kriders Hawk" a very light colored bird, which has a pink tail ( sometimes even white)
So, color alone isn't always a reliable way to ID the Red tailed Hawk. But these are rare variations that are all a part of what makes birding such a wonderful sport. Bruce