A recently-inaugurated life staring at you...Which kind of raptor?

david 13/06/2019 21:55

Good night , i hope you like the picture making easy the identificantion of this realy young raptor

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0 WendyBartter 13/06/2019 22:08

What a cheeky expression!

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0 James 13/06/2019 22:16

Good evening David, I am not 100% sure but I will go with a red kite?

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0 david 13/06/2019 22:19

Thats very true indeed the most penetratibg view for me from among all the Iberian raptors. The coulr of its eyes turns from yellowish to completey red when this bird is about three or four years old

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0 david 13/06/2019 22:28

Its a Goshawk, sometimes nesting in small fragmented forests with pine trees dispersed throughout the vast plains of steppe in central Spain.
Have good night Jim

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0 TeeJay 14/06/2019 18:01

I would never have guessed it was a juvenile Goshawk. The plumage that I can see looks similar to a Kestrel or Red Kite so I would have been mistaken. Nice shot.

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0 WendyBartter 14/06/2019 18:22

Me too TJ which is why I kept quiet until David confirmed what it was! Lol

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0 david 14/06/2019 21:56

Yes that is a Goshawk...but i have the "little" advantage regarding you of having seen the adult ones around the nest :)

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0 david 14/06/2019 22:03

Here you are some more pictures of the juvenlie one...may be the tail makes easier the difference from Kites

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