I found this dead hawk in my backyard today, August 10, 2007, in Apex, North Carolina, Eastern United States. It has a darker brown back and a white and brown belly with a rectangular black and white striped tail with a bit of reddish color near the base. It is about 13 inches long. In the last picture you can see its face, it looks like it had a yellow beak. It has holes in its back, and I could see into its hollow ribcage, but its head and its limbs are all still attached. I'm not sure what it is. I suspect it to be a broad-winged hawk or a young red-tailed hawk. Could anyone ID it for me? I think I saw it getting mobbed by blue jays and mockingbirds a few weeks before it turned up dead in my backyard. Here are the photos I took:
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v329/pinnipedbuddy/deadhawk1.jpg
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