black-hawk, Mexico, April 2007 (1 Viewer)

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JanArras

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• Apr 15, 2007

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Can anyone ID this black-hawk (Common or Great). The bird was seen in Veracruz near a small marsh.Picture taken from long distance.

Jan

 

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JanArras

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• Apr 15, 2007

• #2

JanArras said:

Can anyone ID this black-hawk (Common or Great). The bird was seen in Veracruz near a small marsh.Picture taken from long distance.

Jan

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This time with photo.

 

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Lisa W

I really need to get out and bird more

Staff member

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• Apr 15, 2007

• #3

Except for the lack of gray bands on the tail, it looks like a Zoned-tail Hawk. Very dark hawks, with yellow cere and small gray moon on cheek behind the cere. Could the tail be going down into the leaves?

 

B Lagopus

Voler

• Apr 15, 2007

• #4

Adult male Buteogallus anthracinus anthracinus for my vote.

Note the yellow tones to the lores, black under the eye, leg feathers that are white tipped but not barred, as well as the very dark coloration as Lisa mentioned...

 

Lisa W

I really need to get out and bird more

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• Apr 16, 2007

• #5

I tried to delete/edit my first post after I reread what JanArras had written, didn't pay close enough attention the first time. Agree with B Lagopus.

 

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cjwolf

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• Apr 16, 2007

• #6

Good picture for the distance. Where in Veracruz was it?

 

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JanArras

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• Apr 16, 2007

• #7

cjwolf said:

Good picture for the distance. Where in Veracruz was it?

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I don't have a map here. We saw the bird where route 175 (to Oaxaca) leaves the coast, just before the toll bridge. In the very small pond also, White Ibis, Wood Stork, Snowy Egret, Great Egret, Solitary Santpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs, Northern Jacana, ...