Subject: URL for Unidentified Hawk
Date: Jun 22 19:03:00 2004
From: Rob Saecker - rsaecker at thurston.com


At 8:12 PM -0400 6/22/04, JLRosso at aol.com wrote:
>Gayle Benton sent me her hawk photo and I have put it on the web at
><http://birdcentral.net/unident.htm>http://birdcentral.net/unident.htm
>
>It is a unique looking bird. It reminds me of what somebody once
>told me, "If you see a buteo that you can't identify it's probably a
>Red-tailed. but this bird doesn't quite look like a red-tailed but I
>can't say what it does look like. I will be interested in the
>suggestions.

Without checking any references, my first guess is dark-morph
Ferruginous. Lack of patagial marks eliminates any version of
red-tail.
--
Rob Saecker
Olympia
rsaecker at thurston.com