I saw a hawk on I-29 heading south between Percival, IA and Rockport, MO. It looked about the size of a red-tail, but it had a dark brown head and wings, and a black breast. Can anyone tell me what it is?
2007-03-13 05:47:58 · 2 answers · asked by Future zookeeper 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Possibly a dark morph swainson's hawk
http://fwp.mt.gov/fieldguide/mediaDisplay.aspx?id=2688&elcode=ABNKC19070
or a dark morph (harlani subspp) red-tailed hawk http://content.ornith.cornell.edu/UEWebApp/images/VIR_020403_100004_L.jpg
or even a dark morph rough legged-hawk
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/516184
2007-03-13 06:38:55 · answer #1 · answered by crazy.carabid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swainson's shouldn't be here yet. It may have been a Rough-leg, though I would suspect it's one of the non-eastern Red-tail subspecies (Western or Harlan's)
2007-03-13 19:35:30 · answer #2 · answered by Strix 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋