Hello Rob and Tweeters,
I must agree with Rob on this Hawk that it is a dark morph Ferruginous Hawk showing good the long narrow black tips on the primaries.There having more Ferruginous Hawks in Oregon and more common than in Washington.


Cheers Ruth Sullivan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Saecker" <rsaecker at thurston.com>
To: <JLRosso at aol.com>; <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: URL for Unidentified Hawk


> 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
>