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Ruffle feathers

Molting or had an argument with something bigger.

Hi. This is my first post here and I'm thrilled to have found you. As you can see, my query is about a hawk-looking bird, which, based on the reddish tail feathers, someone thought was a red-tail, but there's stuff about it that's wrong for a red-tail. Like those dark brown slashes on its cheek and brown-on-white spots on its back. I thought the ...