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Okinawa Raptor Identification (1 Viewer)

No experience, but going on books, I'm thinking Butastur indicus. Wait for other replies too though!

Edit - Grahame got in first!
 
Thanks, didn't realize pictures/posts about raptors shouldn't be posted in the Birds of Prey forum. Or maybe if I took the word "identification" out of the subject line it would be appropriate for this forum? I'll have to read up on the forum descriptions so I don't clutter the place up with my nonsense posts.
 
Thanks, didn't realize pictures/posts about raptors shouldn't be posted in the Birds of Prey forum. Or maybe if I took the word "identification" out of the subject line it would be appropriate for this forum? I'll have to read up on the forum descriptions so I don't clutter the place up with my nonsense posts.

No problem with it being here! I think Grahame's point is that you might get a quicker answer in the Identification section, as more people inhabit it regularly. But you got the answer you needed all the same :t:
 
yes Grey-faced Buzzard - see photo

photo of an adult on migration - they have two routes: one offshore through Okinawa and ending in Borneo; and the other, a mainland route where some go south through Thailand to Malaysia and head west to Sumatra...while others head SE through Malaysia to Indonesia...
 

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