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Title: What Breed of hawk is this?
Post by: grandpawrichard on December 02, 2013, 02:21:32 AM: Some little Hawks that my wife Ellen Photographed a week ago Saturday. We can't figure out what kind of hawk is in the first two photos.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169430954/# (http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169430954/#)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169576103/# (http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169576103/#)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169556333/# (http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169556333/#)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169417944/# (http://www.flickr.com/photos/92498626@N00/11169417944/#)

Dick
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Post by: PolarBear on December 02, 2013, 03:42:04 AM: Sparrow Hawk?
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Post by: grandpawrichard on December 02, 2013, 04:07:04 AM: I'm torn between a Coopers Hawk and a Sharp-shinned Hawk.

Dick
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Post by: PolarBear 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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Post by: Russ McDonald 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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Post by: lokidog 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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Post by: lokidog 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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Post by: wildweeds 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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Post by: Heredoggydoggy 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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Post by: pianoman9701 on December 02, 2013, 10:53:41 AM: Quote from: lokidog on December 02, 2013, 09:59:07 AM
The other is a Rough-legged hawk with the dark belly and barred upper breast.

:yeah: Rough-legged I think.
Title: Re: What Breed of hawk is this?
Post by: Russ McDonald on December 02, 2013, 11:04:31 AM: Quote from: pianoman9701 on December 02, 2013, 10:53:41 AM
Quote from: lokidog on December 02, 2013, 09:59:07 AM
The other is a Rough-legged hawk with the dark belly and barred upper breast.

:yeah: Rough-legged I think.
Our wild-life biologist at work said that is what it it.
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Post by: Yelper Guy 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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Post by: Heredoggydoggy 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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Post by: stringer on December 03, 2013, 12:22:47 AM: I would say Merlin, aka pigeon hawk. Winters here.
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on December 03, 2013, 03:19:23 AM: I think it is a Broad -winged hawk ... :tup: :twocents: