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    ID Help, NJ, USA

    For me, it's not just that the tail is notched, but that it appears quite short and slight. Also, the crown stripe (the sliver visible) seems quite light, the bird has no reddish tones in the wings and tertials, the bill looks light, especially the lower mandible, rather than grey, the...
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    ID Help, NJ, USA

    I agree with red-tailed hawk. Not sure about the sparrow, but the light background, hint of yellow in the eyebrow, and short tail have me leaning savannah. Scott
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    Another Rapture - USA (Arizona)

    This bird has a light nape and a fairly wide wide tip on the tail, so I agree with cooper's. Scott
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    Dead Bird - Sask Canada

    Sharp-tailed seems like a good bet with those white marks on the leading edge of the primaries. Definitely not a gray.
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    Dead Bird - Sask Canada

    Agreed.
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    NJ USA Merganser?

    I believe the closer one is a first year male with a bright yellow eye and a dark bill. But I agree they are both hooded.
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    Hawk in Wayne County, North Carolina, USA

    On this specimen you can also see relatively wide bands on the tail (more narrow on a young red-tailed), and the streaking is heaviest on the upper breast, which is usually lightly marked in red-tailed and more heavily marked on the belly (belly band). From the back or side, this bird would...
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    Bird id please?

    It's a black phoebe.
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    North Texas ID's Needed

    In the group shot, the two on the ends are clearly lesser, but the middle one looks larger, bigger headed, bigger billed, and rounder headed. I agree with a rather bright blue-headed vireo.
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    Bunch of Accipters, CA

    Not a raven with that tail. Could be a crow. I just realized it's in the same photo as the sharpie, so it's not as big as I first thought.
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    Bunch of Accipters, CA

    The third bird in the second set is a buteo. I'm not sure which, given the lighting.
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    Identification help-North Fort Myers, FL-USA

    Agreed.
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    Orange-Crowned Warbler?

    Yes, looks right for OC warbler.
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    Today, southern Ontario (Peterborough area)

    Thanks guys. I was able to pick it out of the flock on two separate occassions, so I think I'm fairly confident. Scott
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    What kind of bird U.S.A. East tn

    agreed
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    Eastern Massachusetts bird ID

    This time of year hermit is really the only possibility, and the field marks as mentioned support that.
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    Today, southern Ontario (Peterborough area)

    These are almost impossibly horrible shots for this type of ID (pocket camera through binos through windows 30 m away) but, is this gal at least a potential candidate? As you can see, she is noticibly whiter and less heavily streaked on the sides. The rump seemed pure white through the bins...
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    Hawk ID MI, USA

    I would go with first winter red-shouldered hawk, but not 100% certain.
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    Pacific Loon? MI USA

    Common has a bulkier body, more massive bill that isn't upturned like this one, has more colour on the neck with remnants of the white collar, and the back is more checkered rather than speckled.
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    San Francisco Bay Raptors

    They are indeed all red-tailed hawks, the first being adult and the other two being young birds.
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    Raptor, St. George, Utah USA

    It's definitely an adult red-tailed, but what a mess. Maybe it got too close to one of the wires :)
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    Northern California help

    The all grey one does look like a slate-coloured, but it also retains something of a hood, so perhaps an intergrade. The brown one does not have enough colour in the flanks or the dark lores of a pink-sided, so again perhaps more like a brown version of slate-coloured. Scott
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    Gull ID, Florida, USA

    That's my opinion as well. The near wing is drooping and shows no primaries at all. I think this is an injured herring gull.
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    Another one from Central Park, New York

    Agreed
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    ID on a flying flock - Sask Canada

    Cranes yes, but these are Sandhill Cranes. Whoopers have much more black at the wing tips and are whiter.
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