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sicklebill

well-known Cretaceous relic

• Apr 25, 2017

• #1

We think the very rufous bird in 2 and 3 is Oriental Honey Buzzard, though I have never seen such a colourful one.
The flying bird 4 with the mesial stripe is Crested Goshawk we think
The big pale headed flying raptor photo 1 Changeable (Crested ) Hawk Eagle?

Thanks

 

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andyb39

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• Apr 26, 2017

• #2

I agree with Crested Hawk Eagle for #1 and OHB for #2-3.

#4 looks like Crested Goshawk but doesn't seem to have much of a yellow cere and I'm puzzled as why it's showing 7 fingers.

 

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Grahame Walbridge

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• Apr 26, 2017

• #3

andyb39 said:

I agree with Crested Hawk Eagle for #1 and OHB for #2-3.

#4 looks like Crested Goshawk but doesn't seem to have much of a yellow cere and I'm puzzled as why it's showing 7 fingers.

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Surely 4 is as adult Changeable (Crested) Hawk Eagle.

Grahame

 

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andyb39

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• Apr 26, 2017

• #4

Grahame Walbridge said:

Surely 4 is as adult Changeable (Crested) Hawk Eagle.

Grahame

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That would explain it!

I hadn't realised that Crested can display both mesial and (sub)moustachial stripes, as in this photo from N India (which would be limnaeetus, I think). I'm more familiar with the pale form.

 

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sicklebill

well-known Cretaceous relic

• Apr 26, 2017

• #5

Great, thank you all, that mesial stripe threw us off with the aptly named Changeable Hawk Eagle in pic 4