Sweden - Rough-legged Buzzard? (1 Viewer)

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joroco

Well-known member

• May 24, 2011

• #1

Uploaded some photos to : http://www.pbase.com/johncostello/id_needed
I think it might be a Rough-legged Buzzard or just a light phase Common Buzzard
What's your thoughts?

 

timwootton

Well-known member

• May 24, 2011

• #2

Common for me. Nice pics.

 

Happisbirder

Always looking, seldom finding...

• May 24, 2011

• #3

Hi joroco. I see a very striking juvenile Common Buzzard bearing more than a passing resemblance to this juvenile Red-tailed Hawk...

James

 

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joroco

Well-known member

• May 24, 2011

• #4

Ok thanks guys

 

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ceasar

Well-known member

• May 25, 2011

• #5

How about this one from Chile?

http://ibc.lynxeds.com/photo/rufous-tailed-hawk-buteo-ventralis/female-0

Bob

 

BuckeyeAZ

Just this bloke, you know

• May 25, 2011

• #6

ceasar said:

How about this one from Chile?
http://ibc.lynxeds.com/photo/rufous-tailed-hawk-buteo-ventralis/female-0

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Well, it's neither common nor rough-leg. And, if rufous-tailed hawk looks much like red-tailed, then it's a rufous-tailed hawk.
(Does this have some bearing on the OP's bird?)

 

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ceasar

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• May 25, 2011

• #7

BuckeyeAZ said:

Well, it's neither common nor rough-leg. And, if rufous-tailed hawk looks much like red-tailed, then it's a rufous-tailed hawk.
(Does this have some bearing on the OP's bird?)

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Only that, like the juvenile Red-tailed Hawk, it has a passing resemblance to the OP's bird as James noted above. Even though, like the RTH, it is on a different continent and additionally in a different hemisphere.

Bob

 

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BuckeyeAZ

Just this bloke, you know

• May 25, 2011

• #8

Ah, I see. I can't say that any of the birds featured in this thread strike me as rough-leg-like - tho all are more-or-less like red-tailed hawk.

 

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joroco

Well-known member

• May 25, 2011

• #9

Ok well that was a lot of activity since I last checked. They are similar, is the Red-tailed Hawk related in any was to Buzzards or does it just happen to look similar?

 

BuckeyeAZ

Just this bloke, you know

• May 25, 2011

• #10

Red-tailed hawk is a species of buzzard. Americans just choose not to call it one.

 

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ceasar

Well-known member

• May 25, 2011

• #11

There have been other comments here in the past on similarities between the RTH and the CB. In fact, the RTH, B. jamaicensis, seems to be, at least superficially, closer to CB, Buteo buteo, than it is to other North American buteos.

Bob