Re: red tail effect in Short-tailed Hawk

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Posted by Ken Schneider on 21:38:36 01/09/10

In Reply to: Re: Light Morph red-tailed Short-tailed Hawk posted by Ken Schneider

I spoke too soon-- this field mark was described over 17 years ago!

http://fosbirds.org/FFN/PDFs/FFNv01n2p14-17Ogden.pdf

Florida Field Naturalist, Vol. 1, - Fall, 1973

Strong sunlight shining through the spread tail of a soaring white-phase Short-tail (and in some dark ones) creates the illusion of a reddish-brown tail, rather than pale grey.


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