rockportrocket
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If you saw it in Texas, it is a Texan Hawk.
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dodge guy
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rockportrocket wrote:If you saw it in Texas, it is a Texan Hawk.
Yes, but then it should be bigger!
In our town we have a bunch of Hawks. our B-ball teams are called the Hawks, we have a forest preserve called Hawk Hollow. the wing spans on our are huge! I watched one come down and almost get a squirrel. unbelievable the wing spans on these birds! I watched one eating (more like ripping apart) a field mouse or some type of rodent in the tree in front of my house.
Amazing birds!
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It can be fairly difficult to ID hawks. Besides the color variations that some hawks display, juvenile hawks of one species often resemble mature birds of another species. The mostly white breast seen in the picture could conceivably be either a juvenile broadwinged hawk or a mature red tail. It is hard to tell size from the picture but a redtail is considerably larger than the broadwinged hawk.
Other good criteria are range and habitat. Broadwinged Hawks are small woodlands hawks that live in the eastern forests while redtails inhabit open spaces. I don't see any forest in the picture.
Finally, if you saw this hawk near Artesia Wells it is quite unlikely that it is a Broadwinged Hawk. Their range does not extend that far west.
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Just read an article the other day on the internent that Artic White Owls have been seen In New Jersey and other south of the mason/Dixon line states. According to Bird watchers; this is not normal habitat for the white owls. Could this be another disruption in their domain? Irover
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Shearwater
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Irover wrote:Just read an article the other day on the internent that Artic White Owls have been seen In New Jersey and other south of the mason/Dixon line states. According to Bird watchers; this is not normal habitat for the white owls. Could this be another disruption in their domain? Irover
This past summer there was an overabundance of lemmings - the major food source for snowy owls. The increased food supply allowed the owls to raise a much higher percentage of chicks to maturity than normal. Now, there are too many owls for the food supply and they are ranging further south than normal. These irruptions occur periodically with booms and crashes in the lemming population.
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Don/Shar
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Shearwater wrote:It can be fairly difficult to ID hawks. Besides the color variations that some hawks display, juvenile hawks of one species often resemble mature birds of another species. The mostly white breast seen in the picture could conceivably be either a juvenile broadwinged hawk or a mature red tail. It is hard to tell size from the picture but a redtail is considerably larger than the broadwinged hawk.
Other good criteria are range and habitat. Broadwinged Hawks are small woodlands hawks that live in the eastern forests while redtails inhabit open spaces. I don't see any forest in the picture.
Finally, if you saw this hawk near Artesia Wells it is quite unlikely that it is a Broadwinged Hawk. Their range does not extend that far west.
A friend that is in the Audobon Society told me it looks like a Broadwinged Hawk but is rare to see one in the west, a lot of other birds have been seen out of their normal area. The snowy owl and while I was in Missouri we saw a scissortailed flycatcher. Not normal there.
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Red Tailed Hawk
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Don/Shar
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Don/Shar wrote:Can you identify this bird, he looks like a hawk of some kind but his all brown head and white underside doesn't match anything in my book.
Update on this Hawk. My friend took the picture to her Audabon Meeting this week. They studied the picture and came up that it is a (Fuertes) Red Tailed Hawk. She apoligized for her quick answer but the ones that said Red-Tailed Hawk were right.
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Fun topic, however, rather than having potentially dozens of threads going on this topic, please post your pics in "This is fun: Bird Identification Game" Thanks.
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