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Birders

pscot

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3. Red Tailed and Swainson's hawks

Reply to hunter (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2013, 11:39 PM

Dec 2013

have light colored morphs. And younger birds tend to be lighter in color.

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I saw some kind of white hawk today stalking our bird feeder. [View all] hunter Dec 2013 OP

There are white Red Tail Hawks. In_The_Wind Dec 2013 #1

snowy owl jxl Dec 2013 #2

Red Tailed and Swainson's hawks pscot Dec 2013 #3

Bird was strikingly white and black, not much in-between gray. hunter Dec 2013 #4

White-tailed Kite XemaSab Dec 2013 #5

Viewed from below it was all bright white, except for the black wingtips. hunter Dec 2013 #6

They're striking. XemaSab Dec 2013 #7

Thanks. I think that's the bird. hunter Dec 2013 #8

Definitely sounds like a White Tailed Kite catchnrelease Dec 2013 #9

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