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Hi Grousemore,

I hope you dont mind but I lightened your original file in Photoshop.

Your bird looks like it has a band across the chest, I'd probably plump for common buzzard but the head shape looks a bit like spar.

How big was it and where?

Woody
 

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Common Buzzard for me too - that's assuming the pic was taken somewhere in NW Europe! (go on, now tell us all it was taken in Peru, or something . . .)

Michael
 
I can't decide if the tail protrudes below the branch that it is standing on. If it does, this is a long tail and I don't think that would be quite right for a buteo.
 
Colin said:
I can't decide if the tail protrudes below the branch that it is standing on. If it does, this is a long tail and I don't think that would be quite right for a buteo.

I'd go along with that but the legs look a bit hefty for spar, unless it's just a photo effect?

Woody
 
Colin said:
I can't decide if the tail protrudes below the branch that it is standing on. If it does, this is a long tail and I don't think that would be quite right for a buteo.
The bit below the branch is another branch behind - it is out of alignment with the bird's tail
 
Ah ha...well its still a Buteo, I'd guess at Red-tailed Hawk. They looked bang on Common buzz jizz-wise to me. Off to check out plumages!
 
Hi Grousemore,
Was ready to ID the bird as Common Buzzard,but given that the photo was taken in the US,then it's most likely a Red-tailed Hawk.
Harry H
 
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