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Griffin
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Please help in ID this raptor
« on: Feb 5th, 2004, 9:27am » |
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Is it just a black kite under strange lighting?
TBT, Jan-25-2004 around 1100.
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KK Hui
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Re: Please help in ID this raptor
« Reply #1 on: Feb 5th, 2004, 10:55am » |
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Griffin,
The rounded tail, the black carpal patches and the dark wing-tips lead me to believe it was a Common Buzzard!  
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Re: Please help in ID this raptor
« Reply #2 on: Feb 5th, 2004, 2:25pm » |
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 Oh, I saw the "fingers" at the edge and thought it were a Black Kite! I did not track it so I might have missed a great photo opportunity! 
Thank you.
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Mike Turnbull
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Re: Please help in ID this raptor
« Reply #3 on: Feb 7th, 2004, 10:41pm » |
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Certainly appears to be a Common Buzzard. Black Kite is not the only raptor to show "fingers". As I've said in previous 'buzzard-related' posts, there are other buzzard species it could be, but there's no reason from this angle to believe it's anything other than a Common Buzzard.
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