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What Breed of hawk is this?
« on: December 02, 2013, 02:21:32 AM »
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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2013, 03:42:04 AM »
Sparrow Hawk?

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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2013, 04:07:04 AM »
I'm torn between a Coopers Hawk and a Sharp-shinned Hawk.

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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2013, 04:19:42 AM »
Ah, good call!  I'm not real good on birds.  Bone could probaby tell you right off the bat.

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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2013, 05:24:38 AM »
I am tagging this one.  While I was sitting in my blind Friday one was sitting on a fence post.  Pretty cool looking hawk.
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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2013, 09:56:49 AM »
The first pics look like a Merlin or Pigeon Hawk to me.  They are slightly larger than the Sparrow Hawk or Kestrel.  The Kestrel is also much more colorful, even the females.

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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2013, 09:59:07 AM »
The other is a Rough-legged hawk with the dark belly and barred upper breast.

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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2013, 10:14:53 AM »
I call that buggar in the first two pics a sharp shinned,I can't hardly keep a homing pigeon flock because of them turds.

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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2013, 10:15:45 AM »
Pictures 1 + 2 look like a juvenile Sharp-Shinned Hawk.  The white spots on the back give it away.  They lose a lot of the barring as they mature, but the white spots get more pronounced.  I have one availing himself of the Starling kills around my place...  :twocents:
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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2013, 10:53:41 AM »
The other is a Rough-legged hawk with the dark belly and barred upper breast.

 :yeah: Rough-legged I think.
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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #10 on: December 02, 2013, 11:04:31 AM »
The other is a Rough-legged hawk with the dark belly and barred upper breast.

 :yeah: Rough-legged I think.
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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2013, 11:31:39 AM »
I agree with the Sharp-shinned Hawk, the first pics.
I also agree with the Rough-legged hawk, technically called a Ferruginous Rough Legged hawk.
They winter in large numbers in the Columbia basin area.

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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2013, 12:04:37 PM »
The Rough-legged Hawk is bigger than the Sharp-Shinned Hawk.  I probably have both, but the little guy is the only one I can identify.....
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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2013, 12:22:47 AM »
I would say Merlin, aka pigeon hawk.  Winters here.

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Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2013, 03:19:23 AM »
I think it is a Broad -winged hawk ... :tup: :twocents:

 


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