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Cooper's Hawk Juvenile or Sharp Shinned Hawk Juvenile (1 Viewer)
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Valéry Schollaert
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lou salomon
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agree, adult sharpie.
TLeukering
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It's an adult Sharp-shinned Hawk. It has blue wings, red barring underneath with no hint of darker streaking on the chest. Juvenile Sharpies have brown wings with the coverts and scapulars having rufescent fringes.
It does have yellowish eyes, which suggests that it's a second-year bird. If that's true, then it's probably a female, as even second-year males tend to have redder eyes than this. I'm not sure what's going on with the apparent dark eye ring -- that's just odd.
It does have yellowish eyes, which suggests that it's a second-year bird. If that's true, then it's probably a female, as even second-year males tend to have redder eyes than this. I'm not sure what's going on with the apparent dark eye ring -- that's just odd.
brightraven
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Thanks for all the replies! You've all been very helpful.
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