ML609554272
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- Age
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- Sex
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Observation details
Continuing juvenile present for about a week. Buteo around the size of a Red-tailed or Red-shouldered Hawk. Dark brown on back and wings with white feather edges giving a mottled appearance. Head with bold buffy supercilium, buffy crown and nape with dark streaks, buffy cheeks, broad dark brown malar extending and expanding on sides of neck forming two large dark brown patches. Breast buffy ground color with heavy bold dark brown streaking. Undertail coverts white. Tail brown with narrow dark bands. Wing tips reach the tip of the tail. Legs and feet yellow, bill dark brown, cere dull yellow and gray, iris dark. White patch with black bands on underside of primaries visible in flight, buffy underwing coverts. Immatures of our two resident buteos, Red-shouldered and Red-tailed Hawks lack the bold dark heavy markings and buff on the head and are lighter in color overall. Juvenile Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk lacks buffy tones and is darker, more black than brown with white supercilium and white underneath the streaking on the breast. The malar is not as bold and wide as in juvenile Swainson's. Harlan's steaking forms a dark belly band that Swainson's lacks and the wing tips do not reach the end of the tail.
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- Original file size
- 122.76 MB