What kind of hawk is this? pic heavy

[gjensen]

Ferruginous Hawks have feathered legs to the top of their feet/toes. This bird does not have feathered legs.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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Doh, I didn't catch that, I was too busy looking at the tail. That seems to suggest juvenile Red Tailed hawk. They are the most common large hawk here.

 

[LostMindPleaseFind]

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it does to me

http://www.warrencampdesign.com/fisher/march8/images/andrewBirds/redShoulderHawk.jpg

 

[turbodog]

I'm tending to side with those sayin it's a juvenile red-tail.

 

[gjensen]

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it does to me

http://www.warrencampdesign.com/fisher/march8/images/andrewBirds/redShoulderHawk.jpg

Red Shouldered Hawks are only sporadicly seen along the California Border in Winter. They are not a summer resident of Arizona. There are some Red Shoulders that would share a resemblance to some morphs of red tails.

 

[ccshambhala]

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it does to me

http://www.warrencampdesign.com/fisher/march8/images/andrewBirds/redShoulderHawk.jpg

STILL not looking like a red shoulder TO ME- red shoulder hawks - as seen in your pic - have finer, light red barring on their chests rather than the dark brown of the hawk in the original photos - plus a more delicate head. But again, that's just my opinion .....

 

[Cetawin]

Well for starters, I was named after one...that is a redtail hawk, a juvenile specifically. Probably less than a year old as it has not started its transitional feathering yet...I also rescued an injured one as a kid and she was a wild pet for years.


Juveniles:

Transitional:

Adult:

 

[arianna]

Of the topic: I love your painted wall in the run, and the slow sign with chicken at play. Very cute!

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

Hi All,

Went camping this weekend at Lake Pleasant and noticed at the visitor center they had a couple taxidermy birds. One was a Golden Eagle and the other a Red Tailed Hawk. The back of the Golden Eagle looked like the "bird" that took a bath in the pool. But it also has the characteristics of the Hawk.

I am just excited to have had an opportunity to see this bird close up. It wasn't scared of me, just of the dogs. It actually let me come pretty close. I am hoping that when it is hungry , it will eat the pigeons that hang out at the neighbor's house next door.

My girls have figured out that the A/C in their coop is the place to be in this heat. Hubby is working on a better mist system for them right now.

Thank you for the kind words on my coop and wall mural. I did not like the plain white wall. Am working on painting different types of daisies in their coop on the large wall.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Don't think so. I see no red shoulders, and they are not common here. Also, the breast colouring is wrong. Most likely either a Cooper's Hawk or a Sharp-shinned hawk. The Cooper's is pretty large, the sharp-shinned fairly small.