Great Black-hawk, life expectancy

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Posted by Elsa on 18:59:12 01/09/08

Many thanks to Robin Diaz for the posting of the Great Black-hawk at Virginia Key and for pointing out the previous discussion. Fascinating! Jeff Weber asked: if the Crandon Park Zoo closed 30 years ago, could the hawk possibly have lived that long? I websearched life expectancy of birds and found that the record for a banded red-tailed hawk is 25 years and 9 months,
which is amazing!

http://www.wildbirds.com/dnn/ProtectBirds/LifeExpectancy/tabid/709/Default.aspx

And that was a wild bird, wild all its life I imagine. Soo... a great black-hawk initially raised in captivity MAY indeed have lived this long. Of course, it may have come from any other captive situation, perhaps another zoo or aviary in Florida or nearby state, and be much younger. The hawk's not saying, either way.


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