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Topic Categories: Birding • Education • Mystery Birds • Photography • Teaching • Travel
Posted on: November 1, 2009 9:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: Crested Hawk, Aviceda subcristata, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Crested Hawk, Aviceda subcristata, photographed at Atherton, Queensland, Australia. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours]
Image: Steve Duncan, 26 August 2009 [larger view].
Nikon D200 w/ Nikkor 300mm f/4 1/2500 & 1/1250 sec, f/4 iso 200.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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Comments
Pacific Baza or Crested Hawk, Aviceda subcristata
long-tail; paddle-shaped, long-"fingered" wings; grey head, neck, and breast; underparts white with bold, dark banding; domed "popeye" yellow eyes; continued banding on the underside of the tail and flight feathers.
Differentiated from the similar Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter cirrhocephalus) which has finely barred underparts, yellow legs, and rounded short wings , and from the Brown Goshawk (Accipiter fasciatus) which also has fine bading on the underparts and yellow legs...
Pacific Baza from North Queensland
Pacific Baza by the Daintree River, North Queensland
Pacifi Baza in flight, Capalaba, Brisbane
Posted by: David | November 1, 2009 11:08 AM
Hey Grrl, did you get my Pacific Baza comment from earlier?
(Don't know why several of my comments get sidelined or lost in the void- is that the HTML attribute de-spammer that Seed use?)
Posted by: David | November 1, 2009 12:47 PM