ML410125801
Red-tailed x Rough-legged Hawk (hybrid) Buteo jamaicensis x lagopus
Contributor
Melissa Hafting Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Delta - 28 Ave and Hwy 17
Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
Observation details
This rare bird was found by Mike Tabak and was confirmed by Brian Sullivan hawk expert from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. This bird looks predominantly like a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk but lacks the feathered tarsi associated with this species indicating hybridism with a Red-tailed Hawk. All photos are taken by Mike Tabak (who doesn't use eBird) and entered under my account with his explicit permission as this is a rare record worth entering into eBird's database.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D850
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 4117 pixels x 2858 pixels
- Original file size
- 2.45 MB