Another Hawk

wave01wave01 Registered Users Posts: 204 Major grins
edited January 15, 2016 in Wildlife
Taken last year

[IMG][/img]24335590115_99f97bf198_c.jpgIJ2A2296-Edit.jpg by driver_wave, on Flickr

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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2016
    Very nice!
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited January 13, 2016
    Excellent capture. I'm wondering what kind of hawk that is. My first impression was that it's a golden eagle, but there's a bit too much yellow on the beak for a golden. Got any other angles of this beauty?
  • wave01wave01 Registered Users Posts: 204 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2016
    My thoughts were a harris hawk but i am not sure
  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited January 15, 2016
    This was photographed in the UK? Or North America? I am wondering if we need a European reference work, maybe.

    My references are all for North America, so I am cautious, - is this a large bird like an eagle or a smaller bird like a kestrel?

    I do think the neck is too short for a golden eagle and I suspect it is too small as well, but it is hard to tell from a single image.

    A Harris hawk has wings that are reddish and distinctly different in color from the darker body.

    Most Swanson's adult pictures I find have a grey bill, not a yellow one - Wheeler & Clark's "Raptors - A Photographic Guide to N American Raptors"

    The overall shape reminds me of a skua, but a skua has more color variation in the wings and body, and doesn't have a yellow bill. It does look like an eagles bill, I agree,

    I think a short tail hawk in a dark morph might look rather like this, but I don't know if short tail hawks occur in the UK.

    Anyone else confident what this bird is?
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  • wave01wave01 Registered Users Posts: 204 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2016
    Ok done some more research looks like it could be a yellow billed kite

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