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I have received another thoughtful diagnosis the hawk at Lanark, Antigonish Co.,
in an e-mail from Tom Carolan (who has an informative and amusing website).
<www.hawksaloft.com>
He gives more good reasons to accept it as a young Red-tailed.
I receive all sorts of images for diagnosis and as photo editor of "Nova Scotia
Birds" prepare captions for better ones for gray-scale publication. However,
I will have to curb the hubris of diagnosing and identifying blurry,
underexposed, ill-posed or fragmentary images, and I hereby eat crow (or
Broad-winged Hawk) on naturens/ns-rba. Sometimes, though, birds on excellent
photos can be mis-identified. A case in point is a young hawk photo'd at
Brooklyn during the great Redwing twitch in December 06, and which appeared
labelled as a young Broad-winged in the spring 07 issue of "NS Birds." Take
another look at that issue see what you think!
Cheers, Ian
Ian McLaren
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