Subject: RE: Raptor ID
Date: May 15 18:57:09 1998
From: eteachou at jdwhite.com - eteachou at jdwhite.com


Joanne -

Have you considered a Merlin? If you have the book *Hawks in Flight* check
out the photograph on page 203. Peregrines do have barred tails, though not
as strikingly so as a Merlin, and its more black and gray than white. Also,
if the banding was black and gray you might also consider a male Northern
Harrier, or an adult accipiter.

Emily Teachout
Portland, OR
eteachou at jdwhite.com

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From: jhpowell at snapwa.org
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Raptor ID
Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 6:36AM

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I live 25 east of Spokane. My route to work in the morning goes along the
local wheatfields on a small country road with lots of handy fence posts on
which birds can hang about. While driving to work yesterday a medium sized
falcon(?) on a post caught my eye. The only look I got was its back - no
side or front view at all. It was a light gray, head and all. Its tail was
slightly spread and was strongly barred in black and white. I've looked in
Stokes, Petersons, Audubons Master set and Petersons Hawks and the closest
thing I can find is a Peregrine but the pictures don't show a barred tail
and the descriptions don't mention that identifier.

If anyone has any ideas on this I would really appreciate it. Hopefully, on
the way to work this morning it will be out there again. Just in case, I'm
driving a LOT more slowly than usual!

Thanks
Joanne