Subject: Fwd: [Tweeters] Can you help ID this Hawk?
Date: Jan 8 16:21:15 2011
From: notcalm at comcast.net - notcalm at comcast.net


Sir Bud,


Will you confirm and advise? There appears to be consensus.


Dan


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From: notcalm at comcast.net
To: "Kevin Purcell" <kevinpurcell at pobox.com>
Cc: "Tweeters" <Tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 8, 2011 3:38:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Can you help ID this Hawk?


Kevin, you are probably right. This bird doesn't appear to have much heft, it does appear to have a relatively long tail, slightly irregular tail bars- which may be an artifact of position and a flat edge. The supercilium really stands out, for such a low light photo, which seems unusual in my experience. I always wish people would get 3-7 shots showing tail, legs, breast, head, size perspective and fairly accurate color captures, at different angles- it would be fairly easy to make the call. But we often see one magnified shot, not in focus and without any of the features that would make differential identification easy. But these birds often move before anyone can even get one shot of anything.


Neat capture, whatever it is.



Dan Reiff
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From: "Kevin Purcell" <kevinpurcell at pobox.com>
To: iwhonever at comcast.net
Cc: "Kevin Purcell" <kevinpurcell at pobox.com>, "Tweeters" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 8, 2011 1:54:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Can you help ID this Hawk?

"The owner has disabled downloading of their photos" -- That makes it more difficult to take a better look especially as larger sizes are not available.

First guess is a juvi Sharpie. Squared tail. They often have the white eyestripe though that one is very prominent. I can't really tell if the breast has juvi streaks though that looks like a juvi's yellow eye.

It is very unlikely to be a Goshawk in someone's front garden (unless they live in a forest and have a lot of luck :-)

See

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/AboutBirdsandFeeding/accipiterIDtable.htm

for an excellent set of ID tips for Coop versus Sharpie.

On Jan 8, 2011, at 1:06 PM, iwhonever at comcast.net wrote:

> Tweeters;
> My brother in Delaware took this picture... can you identify this bird. I was thinking Goshawk do to the only clear feature, the white supercillium above the eye??
> Thanks!
>
> View picture here:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/arthurtileandmisc/5337050310/

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