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Red-tailed Hawk

Buteo jamaicensis
Buteo jamaicensis · from Wikimedia Commons (Credit)

My Sightings

Date Location Note
Glady Douglas Preservenesting
-In my backyard on a telephone poll across the pond. Very dark, darker than usual. Not a dark morph, I don't think, as those don't occur much in florida. Didn't get a good look at its belly. There was another hawk, likely the same species flying nearby.
Possum Branch@ Possum Branch, flying above
Florida Botanical Gardens@ Florida Botanical Gardens, in some back area behind a fence. It was screaming very loudly.
Wall Springs Park@ Wall Springs Park, hard to tell apart from other hawks sometimes but a dark belly band distinguishes it. Hawks look very differently throughout their lives, and they are usually highly sexually dimorphic, so they can look very similar sometimes.
-circling the pond
-attacked feeder, but not successful
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My Photos

Date Photo
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