ML216266241
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Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Another unique Red-tailed Hawk that shows some traits of multiple different subspecies - the bird has a dark head and dark, wide belly band like a Northern Red-tailed Hawk (abieticola) but also has a buffy/rufous wash to the underwings like a light morph Western Red-tailed Hawk (calurus). The base of the tail is whitish which suggests a possible borealis x krideri intergrade and the bird does have quite a bit of white on the head. The patagials are very thick which could point to either calurus or abieticola but abieticola would likely not have a buffy/rufous wash to the underwings. The whitish base of the tail is also a trait not normally seen in calurus. This bird looks very similar to Red-tails that come from the eastern front of the Canadian Rockies. This bird is very similar to a bird I saw just a few miles southwest of this location a couple of weeks ago in the same county. I drove to that location and that bird was still present so these are two different birds.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D3400
- ISO
- 200
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.3
- Shutter speed
- 1/1250 sec
- Dimensions
- 1466 pixels x 1280 pixels
- Original file size
- 186.78 KB