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Hawk in Nebraska today (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Tero
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Lincoln, Nebraska is in Lawrence County.
As noted above the picture in post #2 is a Broad-winged Hawk and it is migrating south from either Alberta, or Saskatchewan, or Manitoba where they have summer breeding grounds to the Coastal Bend of Texas and from there to its winter grounds in s. Mexico or Central and South America.
See the summer range map of the Broad-winged Hawk at page 253 of Wheeler's "Raptors of Western North America."
Bob
As noted above the picture in post #2 is a Broad-winged Hawk and it is migrating south from either Alberta, or Saskatchewan, or Manitoba where they have summer breeding grounds to the Coastal Bend of Texas and from there to its winter grounds in s. Mexico or Central and South America.
See the summer range map of the Broad-winged Hawk at page 253 of Wheeler's "Raptors of Western North America."
Bob
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RJP
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I was leaning that direction myself until I lightened and brightened the pics. This one is the second one you posted. Like the first, it also shows no dark patagial marks, which are very reliable marks on a light morph Red-tailed.
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I still think it is a Broad-winged Hawk, Juvenile. In the picture in post#2 it shows 4 primaries and the thin line down the center of its throat seen on BWHawks. The tail looks like it has thin banding in both pictures. Picture in post#6 looks overexposed but the wings are "tulip" shaped and there seems to be a dark band along the end of the tail.
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Tero
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OK I have sent those comments to the reviewer. My personal take was that the bird was smallish and the brown streaks side of head are not the usual smudgy brown of red-tail heads. Juveniles can have some streaks. Overall shape of my bird seems to be an exact match to Kaufman picture of broad-winged.
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birdmeister
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Broadwing for sure. Glad you got it straightened out on eBird!
