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I have been trying to identify this little fellow for a while now and I have came up blank…
He/she looks like a little bird of prey no more than 12 inches tall… and he/she sports shades of gray.
Any ideas or good web sites for info?????? 😀
hmmm…not without a better shot of his head…Alot of info you can discern about birds is from their faces, beak shape, etc etc…wish I could help. 🙁
I got as close as I could with my little camera! lol
IF I get any better pictures… I’ll post them! 😀
Photos are too hard to tell, but I’m guessing from the size American Kestrel.
Info:
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Kestrel.html(Hay! My best friend lives in Amarillo, TX! 😀 )
I don’t recognize it. At first I thought it was a smaller hawk, but I’m no bird expert; hawks are just what I’ve been exposed to the most. 😀
I think that’s the one my dad keeps calling a sparrow hawk.. we have one that looks very similar to it in our back yard… and it catches and eats the little birds that are back there… 😯
rockerbot wrote:(Hay! My best friend lives in Amarillo, TX! 😀 )
hmme small world… wonder if me or Serenity knows them…
Amarillo is a small place… 😕
If you ever see a gal walking around with a camera taking pictures of random things everywhere, it’s probably her. 😉
She takes the coolest photos. D:
EDIT: And yeh, “sparrow hawks” are a common name for American Kestrels.
rockerbot wrote:If you ever see a gal walking around with a camera taking pictures of random things everywhere, it’s probably her. 😉
She takes the coolest photos. D:
EDIT: And yeh, “sparrow hawks” are a common name for American Kestrels.
hmm there’s lots of people that walk around taking random pictures…
not many people here are what you’d call ‘normal’
Nope… not a sparrow hawk…
I have yet to see this bird eat another bird… it catches big bugs to eat. Smaller birds dive bomb these pour fellows all the time…
There is NO brown on the bird. Just shades of gray.
It looks more like a White tailed Kite but without the black on the shoulder of the wing…. (Yeah I know, that helps! lol)
I think I found it!!! Mississippi Kite…
Picture off the web…
My picture
Ok… a web site had its “call” and it isn’t the same… DANG IT!… off and lookin again…
Could it be a Gray Hawk? The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds says this…
Description: 16-18″ Wing span upto 36″. Small hawk. Pale gray above with gray-white barring on underparts, white rump, and three wide conspicuous black bands on tail.
Voice: A clear downslurred whistle.
Habitat: Deciduous growth along stream beds that have sufficient open space for hunting.
Range: From southern Arizona and northern Mexico, as far aouth as Brazil and Argentina.
I don’t think it’s a Kite; Kite’s are 17″ high. Does it have a notched, blunt or rounded tail? What is the feather patterning like? Banded, spotted? Might also be a Prarie Falcon or a Sharp-shinned Hawk – they are 10-14″ high. Hope this helps?
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