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Red Tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis calurus

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Field Notes

Description:

A large hawk

Habitat:

short scrub meadow- abandoned neighborhood

Notes:

It was hunting, perching on the pole for a while then flying off, gliding over the meadow

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Steven Sheppard
That was my guess. Sorry the photos are bad. My camera is small and I hadn't put anything up for a while so I jumped at the chance even when the subject was too far away.
Liam
Red-tailed Hawk, Buteo jamaicensis calurus, would be my guess, purely off GISS, but these are hard photos to draw an ID from.

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PublishedAugust 24, 2013

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