ML410125851
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
- Behaviors
- Flying
Media notes
Photo taken by Mike Tabak and uploaded with his permission
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
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 6235 pixels x 4339 pixels
- Original file size
- 4.55 MB