Can anybody identify this hawk?2

mohawk82_2009

14 years ago

Heres a closer one but no color my camera screwed up...

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14 years ago
red-tail? compare to this one

http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1170455
orrin_h
14 years ago
Red-tailed Hawk. You don't actually need colour for this one, the pattern of dark belly/pale breast/dark head is sufficient.

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mohawk82_2009
Original Author
14 years ago
Well it was people that didn't really know any better, but i wanted to be sure since i am doing a presentation on it. How embarrassing would it be to do a presentation on it, and it turns out to be wrong.But wow thanks a lot i really appreciate it. The class is called biology for naturalists, and i really enjoy it. The area i live in is on the St. Lawrence River but specifically in a huge wetland area in Akwesasne, an Indian reservation that straddles the U.S. Canadian border, so i am sure to have many more pictures of better quality to show soon. Again thanks.
lionheart_gw (USDA Zone 5A, Eastern NY)
14 years ago
Hi ya, Mohawk82. It certainly does look like a red-tail. Lucky you! They are gorgeous creatures.

The class sounds like fun. Hope to get up to Akwesasne soon to find those Mohawk ancestors.

All the best.

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