Helpful Posts Helpful Posts:  0
Results 1 to 9 of 9

Thread: Need Help Identifying This Bird...

  1. #1
    jprzybyla's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Lakeland, Florida
    Posts
    3,073
    Real Name
    Joe

    Need Help Identifying This Bird...

    I photographed this large bird on the ground today. I have not been able to identify it. The marking on the legs are distinctive, but I have yet found a match.

    Need Help Identifying This Bird...

  2. #2

    Join Date
    Aug 2009
    Posts
    2,342
    Real Name
    Steve

    Re: Need Help Identifying This Bird...

    My first thought is a big old red tailed hawk.

  3. #3

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Location
    Montréal, Canada
    Posts
    12
    Real Name
    Claude

    Re: Need Help Identifying This Bird...

    To help us, where did you gat that photo? What country...?

  4. #4
    jprzybyla's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Lakeland, Florida
    Posts
    3,073
    Real Name
    Joe

    Re: Need Help Identifying This Bird...

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve S View Post
    My first thought is a big old red tailed hawk.
    Thanks Steve, I will check the Red Tailed Hawk.

  5. #5

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Location
    Montréal, Québec
    Posts
    147
    Real Name
    Brad

    Re: Need Help Identifying This Bird...

    I'm with Steve. I'd say it's a juvenile (first year) red-tailed hawk. The key isn't really the leg markings (although this does match the juvenile red-tail), but the big white patch on the breast, which is a distinctive field mark of the red-tail. Red-tails come in a variety of color morphs, from light to dark, but the eastern ones are mostly light and there are plenty of red-tails in Florida.

  6. #6
    jprzybyla's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Lakeland, Florida
    Posts
    3,073
    Real Name
    Joe

    Re: Need Help Identifying This Bird...

    Quote Originally Posted by Clint007 View Post
    To help us, where did you gat that photo? What country...?
    Hello Claude, the image was taken today at a nature reserve in central Florida in the USA.

  7. #7
    jprzybyla's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Lakeland, Florida
    Posts
    3,073
    Real Name
    Joe

    Re: Need Help Identifying This Bird...

    Quote Originally Posted by bhurley View Post
    I'm with Steve. I'd say it's a juvenile (first year) red-tailed hawk. The key isn't really the leg markings (although this does match the juvenile red-tail), but the big white patch on the breast, which is a distinctive field mark of the red-tail. Red-tails come in a variety of color morphs, from light to dark, but the eastern ones are mostly light and there are plenty of red-tails in Florida.
    Thanks Brad, as I answered Steve I shall check out the Red Tailed Hawk.

  8. #8

    Join Date
    Jul 2012
    Location
    Montréal, Canada
    Posts
    12
    Real Name
    Claude

    Re: Need Help Identifying This Bird...

    I agree with the Red-tail Hawk.
    It is recognized with light iris and the "V" on wing coverts.

  9. #9
    jprzybyla's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2011
    Location
    Lakeland, Florida
    Posts
    3,073
    Real Name
    Joe

    Re: Need Help Identifying This Bird...

    Thanks to all respondents, I sincerely appreciate your help for indentifying this bird as a Red-tail Hawk. I can now file the image, actually this is the first Red-tail Hawk I have captured in Florida. I shall be looking for it perched as well as in flight.

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •