Re: Juvenile Zone-tailed Hawk


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Posted by Alex Harper on 21:33:35 03/13/15

In Reply to: Re: Juvenile Zone-tailed Hawk posted by Toe

The structure of the bird lends to a classic Short-tailed Hawk. The bulge of the inner trailing edge of the wing paired with a the shallow "shrug" when the bird is gliding looks much better for Short-tailed.

My experiences with Zone-tailed is limited (Peru 2010 and Texas 2001), but axillaries and underwing coverts should be darker than this, even on a young bird.

I think it's a young dark morph Short-tailed, but please be open to consideration with more experience with ZTHA.

Thanks for sharing,

Alex



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