Tuesday, March 01, 2011

ID Query

Tom McIntyre sent this photo his friend Keith Benoist snapped in Mississippi last weekend. Suggestions include Swainson's and broadwing which I doubt-- slighter and migratory-- and Harlan's which is possible though ours tend to be more "speckly". I call darkish (for the east) redtail. What say you?

7 comments:

John Carlson said...

Looks more like a Redtail than anything else to me.

Cat Urbigkit said...

Yep, I'm with Steve and John, redtail. Been studying up on these buggers lately too.

terrie said...

Yes, juvenile Red-tailed Hawk.

Mark Churchill said...

Redtail, without any doubt in my mind. Doesn't even strike me as all that unusual...

Stephen Olner said...

looks like your typical passage redtail to me

Tim Gallagher said...

I agree. Definitely a juvenile red-tail.

Randy S. Breth said...

I think Redtail, too.
Easier to identify than this one - an Albino Redtail.
http://ksbirds.org/gallery/whitebuteo.htm