What kind of bird?

[greg54]

Just wondering if anyone might know what kind of bird thos is? I was checking my trail cams today and this bird was one of the pics, it appears to facing away from the cam. Is it a hawk,maybe?

[DirtTime]

Looks like a turkey buzzard/turkey vulture.

[ncountry]

The red tail tells me it is probably a red tailed hawk.

 

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-tailed_Hawk/id

[G-Man]

By size and color only, I would go with redtail.hawk, image would.have to be sharper for any better identity to known

[ATbuckhunter]

Ill go with a hawk as well

[Curmudgeon]

As the resident hawk expert, I call it a redtail without a doubt.

[Curmudgeon]

Here are some serious ID challenges. Anyone want to guess?

 

A bird I photographed in Deposit -

 

The remains of a large hawk -

 

A young bird I photographed about 10 days ago -

 

A dead bird I was asked to ID last Christmas Day -

[Paula]

Is the first pic a Falcon and maybe the young one is a vulture?

[Curmudgeon]

Is the first pic a Falcon and maybe the young one is a vulture?

 

Very good. Yes a falcon. Good call. Actually, I doubted anyone would get even the genus. Here' a second pic of the same falcon to help ID the species.

 

This is a different kind of falcon. Photo taken near Fort Plain

 

The young one is not a vulture.

[jjb4900]

1- Falcon?

2-Eagle, maybe Bald or Golden?

3-Coopers Hawk?

[greg54]

Here are some serious ID challenges. Anyone want to guess?

 

A bird I photographed in Deposit - Deposit, NY.jpg

 

The remains of a large hawk - Burlington 005.jpg

 

A young bird I photographed about 10 days ago - DSC00637.JPG

 

A dead bird I was asked to ID last Christmas Day - New Lisbon.JPG

Those are awesome pics. Sometimes when I am out in woods where my trail cams are, I hear a screech from above and the squirrels go running crazy making all kinds of panic calls...would that be from the hawk in the pic from my cam?

[ANTLERS]

Mountain Lion

[Curmudgeon]

Those are awesome pics. Sometimes when I am out in woods where my trail cams are, I hear a screech from above and the squirrels go running crazy making all kinds of panic calls...would that be from the hawk in the pic from my cam?

 

It sounds like a Red-tailed Hawk but a Red-shouldered Hawk also has a high pitched screech. A redtail's is lower in pitch and rougher and is often used in films as a eagle call. Red-shouldered calls are frequently imitated by Blue Jays - more often than the jays imitate retails.

 

The first photo is a Gyrfalcon.

The second photo - which is identifiable - shows the remains of a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk.

The third photo is a nestling Bald Eagle that was just banded.

The fourth photo is a dead juvenile Bald Eagle - ~3 years old - that landed on a power pole and was electrocuted. There were burn marks on the bottom of the feet. I've never been up a power pole. I'm guessing it's feet touched a ground wire and a wing touched a live wire. I doubt a bird that big would try to balance on a wire. Eagles are more often electrocuted this way out west where perches are few.

 

The falcon in the second post is a Peregrine.

 

Here's another falcon. A photo taken in the Village of Cooperstown. Any guesses?

 

[Elmo]