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[NatureLady]

Florida keys nov 2011 id'd as a short tailed hawk but is it?

[JimBob]

Looks like it to me.

[Liam]

A hawk that dark in the Florida Keys is almost definitely a Short-tailed.

[NatureLady]

Liam:

A hawk that dark in the Florida Keys is almost definitely a Short-tailed.

 

Could it be a dark morph Red-tailed Hawk? 

[Liam]

Dark morph Red-tailed Hawks are predominantly Western birds. One in Florida would be rare.

I think the wing shape is too broad for Red-tailed anyway. 

[illin]

NatureLady:

Could it be a dark morph Red-tailed Hawk? 

The only dark morph Red-tails are Harlan's and Calurus and both are western sub-species only occasionally straying east of the Mississippi. I don't think one would ever make it to S. Florida..

 

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[NatureLady]

illin:

NatureLady:

Could it be a dark morph Red-tailed Hawk? 

The only dark morph Red-tails are Harlan's and Calurus and both are western sub-species only occasionally straying east of the Mississippi. I don't think one would ever make it to S. Florida..

 

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