smittyone@cox.net 142 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Seen late this afternoon south of Council Bluffs, IA. I've seen both dark morph Rough-legged Hawks (RLHA) and Harlan's Red-tailed Hawks (RTHA) in this area over the last several weeks. I think this one is a dark morph Harlan's (buteo harlani) Red-tailed Hawk. What do you guys think? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jefferson Shank 1,256 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 I like dark morph Harlan's (buteo harlani) Red-tailed Hawk for this one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AlexHenry 1,294 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 Definitely a Red-tailed Hawk 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jerry Friedman 488 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 The white mottling looks like Harlan's to me, since I think an intermediate-morph juvenile Western would have more white on the breast than the belly. However, I'm not sure the three outer primaries are banded enough, which I think they should be in a juvenile Harlan's. I imagine Harlan's is more common in Iowa that intermediate Western? Nitpick: The first letter of a genus name is always capitalized, and if you consider Harlan's a subspecies of Red-tailed (as the AOS does), it gets three names, so the scientific name is Buteo jamaicensis harlani. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IKLland 337 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 10 hours ago, Jefferson Shank said: I like dark morph Harlan's (buteo harlani) Red-tailed Hawk for this one. Yeah Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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