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ABA Online Bird Photo Quiz 60
ANSWER
This month's quiz bird was obviously a raptor, and not some run-of-the-mill raptor, but one sporting an interesting array of field marks. The combination of all-dark head, white chest, dark belly, and entirely pale tail (at least from underneath) is not found in many ABA-area raptors. Certainly none of our eagles, kites, accipiters, and falcons exhibit such features, so we'll have to look among the buteos, a group that causes no end of confusion for many birders. The relatively broad-based wings also point in that direction.
However, the above combo of field marks eliminates most of our buteo options. Most have banded tails, no plumage of Ferruginous Hawk combines a white chest with dark belly, and Rough-legged Hawk would show contrasting black wrist patches. That leaves us with only White-tailed Hawk and the Harlan's form of Red-tailed Hawk. Our bird's fairly pointed wings certainly suggest White-tailed (which can look quite Swainson's Hawk-like in shape, particularly juveniles) and the lack of a contrastingly dark carpal bar provides us enough information to eliminate Harlan's Hawk. Yes, the bird looks nothing like an adult White-tailed Hawk, but that's because our bird is a juvenile, an age at which appearances are quite different from their parents, as is true in most buteos. However, unlike other buteos with only one color morph of adult plumage, there is something of an array of juvenile plumages in the species, but with most individuals being fairly similar to our quiz bird.
Chris Wood took this picture of a dark-morph juvenile White-tailed Hawk northeast of McAllen, TX, in February 2007.
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The following people (listed by submission date beginning with the earliest) submitted correct answers for the March Bird Photo Quiz – White-tailed Hawk:
- Jim Kopitzke, Mesa AZ
- Karl Erich Mayer, Saint Clair Shores, Michigan
- Matt Pike, Lacey, WA
- Urs Geiser, Woodridge, Illinois
- Nathan Swick, Chapel Hill, NC
- Barb Duncan, Jefferson City, MO
- Benoit Dorion, Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
- Stephen Joly, Kamloops, BC
- Thomas Hall, Livermore, Colorado
- Patty McKelvey, Sheffield Village, OH
- Joe T, NY, NY
- Randy Mehoves, Saint Cloud, MN
- Shaun Hicks, Morrisville, PA
- Joshua Covill, Columbia Falls, MT
- Thomas Hopkins, St. Petersburg, FL
- Jeremy Medina, Tucson, AZ
- Thomas Lechleitner, Fort Lupton, CO
- Mary Chambers, Petaluma, CA
- Judith C Porter, Kingman, AZ 86401
- Alan Dupuis, Cambridge, NY
- Kevin M Hill, Shoreline, WA
- Myles Falconer, Lakefield, ONTARIO
- Steve Arlow, Rochford, Essex, England
- Bret McCarty, Lakewood, OH
- Willis Brubaker, Wooster, Ohio
- Matt Baumann, ABQ,NM
- Gary W. Potter, Sanger, California
- Laura Coble, Cannnon Falls, MN
- tom graham, seabrook-NH
- Tom Benson, San Bernardino, CA
- Bruce Larson, Milton, MA
- Owen McMurtrey, Chicago, IL
- Pete Fenner, East Peoria, IL
- Jill Kaminski, Naples, FL
- Terri Everett, Big Rapids, MI
- Jake McCumber, Austin, TX
- Liis Veelma, Winnipeg MB
- Philip Kline, Tucson, AZ
- Benjamin Berkompas, Yacolt WA
- Andrew Sewell, Columbus, Ohio
- Tim Hodge, Roseland, VA
- Graham Etherington, Norwich, UK
- Aaron Bilyeu, Placerville, CA
- Louie Toth, Fairview Heights, IL
- Jacob Saucier, Baton Rouge, LA
- Brendan Fogarty, Hempstead, NY
- Shawn T. Dash, El Paso, TX
- Szilard Daroczi, Tg.-Mures, Romania
- Joshua Watson, Gainesville
- Grant Gardner, Ottumwa, IA
- Henry Trombley, Bristol, VT
- Luke Downey, Friendswood, TX
- Robin LaFortune, Delano, MN
- Robert Packard, Riverside, CA
- Ann McDonald, Calgary, Alberta
- Linda Swanson, San Francisco, CA
- Jon Atwood, Keene, NH
- Harry Hooper, Tallahassee, Florida
- Julie Desmeules, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- Ryan Phillips, San Jose, CA
- Jonathan Comeau, Williston, VT
- Glenn L. Werner, Beaufort, S.C.
- Wendy Gibbons, Galena, Illinois
- Claude Auchu, La Pocatière, Québec
- John Garrett, Pasadena, CA
- Tamara Brenner, Elmhurst, IL
- Paul Nolan, Charleston, SC
- Michael S, Levy, Centereach, N.Y.
- beau schaefer, round lake beach, IL
- Angie Hardesty, Bowling Green, KY
- Ken McKenna, Stellarton. NS
- Rob Lane, Chandler, AZ
- Chris Warren, Portland, OR
- Howard Sands, Eagle Point, Oregon
- Steve Hampton, Davis, CA
- Marcelo Brongo, Barcelona, Spain
- Kurt Pohlman, Kaneohe, Hi
- Greg Schrott, Sebring, FL
- Brent Bomkamp, Northport, New York
- George Cresswell, Colorado Springs, CO
- Stephen Seiffert, Lansdowne, Ontario, Canada
- Diane Demers, Montréal, QC, Canada
- Leighton Reid, Woodberry Forest, VA
- Kevin Kerr, Guelph, ON
- Tim Hochstetler, Millersburg OH
- Richard Garrigues, San Antonio de Belen, Heredia, Costa Rica
- Tim McFadden, Philadelphia, Pa
- Jim Mountjoy, Galesburg IL
- Brian McDermott, Asheville, NC
- Caleb Dunn, McAllen, TX
- Geoffrey Parks, Gainesville, FL
- Kasia Matyniak, Camp Hill, PA
- Andy Johnson, Ann Arbor, MI
- Lesley Howes, Ottawa, ON
- Ben Barkley, Basking Ridge, New Jersey
- Michael Lester, Haworth, NJ
- Geoffrey A. Williamson, Chicago, IL
- Julie Hart, Hartland, VT
- Alexandre Anctil, Quebec, Quebec
- Susan Kritzik, Portola Valley, CA
- Greg Zupansic, Eugene, Oregon
- Melissa Hein, North Branch, MN
- Megan Rasmussen, Sudbury, Ontario
- Eric Huston, Tumwater, WA
- Pattie McGinnis, Mandeville, La.
- David Yeany II, Cumberland, MD
- gary koehn, colorado springs, colorado
- Javier de Leon, Edinburg, TX
- Larry Therrien, Belchertown, MA
- Vicki Sandage, Ashland, KY
- Marlene Jay Cashen, Veradale, Washington
- Jean Whitlock, Green Bay, WI
- Katherine Ross, Anchorage, AK
- Blake Mathys, Milltown, NJ
- Andrew Fayer, Fort Washington, PA
- Anthony H. Bledsoe, Pittsburgh, PA
- Ron Pozzi, Granite Bay, California
- Pam Baum, Tucson, AZ
- James McKay, Mesa, AZ
- Matthew Schneider, Silverton, OR
- Chris Benson, Rochester, MN
- Adrian Azpiroz, St. Louis, MO
- Sarah J. Zastrow, Riverdale, MD
- Lois Lindsay, Frankford WV
- Robert Doster, Albuquerque, NM
- James P. Smith, Amherst, MA
- Rich Swartzentruber, Salem, Oregon
HOW DID YOU COMPARE?
As stated in the quiz rules, answers must consist simply of the Common or English name exactly as it appears in the ABA Checklist.
The following list shows the number of submissions for each species guessed.
| White-tailed Hawk |  | 127 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | | 49 |
| Ferruginous Hawk | | 20 |
| Rough-legged Hawk | | 8 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | | 3 |
| Swainson's Hawk | | 3 |
| Osprey | | 2 |
| Prairie Falcon | | 2 |
| Crimson-collared Grosbeak | | 1 |
| Gray Hawk | | 1 |
| Gyrfalcon | | 1 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | | 1 |
| White-tailed Kite | | 1 |
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This answer was written by Tony Leukering. The photo was supplied by Chris Wood.
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