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michael-ibk

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An extreme crop of a bad photo in rainy weather, so please excuse the poor quality. Don´t know if it´s possible to ID this one from the photo but I´d still appreciate any trys. Taken July 20th, North of San Jose, probably something like 500 or 600 m above sea level.
 

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because of the longwinged appearance and pattern in the fingers but the bulge in the secondaries is hard to come by in Zone tailed indeed.
A pattern in the fingers is not fully absent in Short tails and the pattern is rather bold for Zone tailed..so I better start varying the aspect towards the wingtip (handformula) and look upon more long-winged impressions in Short tails then.

thanks Eduardo
 
Certainly a Zone-tailed.

Could you please elaborate because I can't get past a Short-tailed Hawk. The bird looks to be a non adult. To me it appears to show broad dark wing barring and a whitish patch at the base of the outer primaries (contra Zone-tailed).

A dark imm Short-tailed Hawk (1st pic)
https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/shthaw/multimedia/photos

Juv Zone-tailed
https://www.sdbirder.com/Birds/Juvenile-Zone-tailed-Hawk/
 
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