I saw a hawk today, at least I believe it was a hawk.?
I am wondering what kind of bird, of hawk, is this? It has a lighter, creamy white front, is red-rusty colored on its tail, with head to just above tail darker, brown, except where the wind blew up brown, a creamy-golden color was revealed. Beautiful aware creature Maybe? 1 ft. plus, guessing, including tail, about a foot and a half tall. Perched in NYC on an apt.'s balcony metal-rail, across from a park.Very brown alert, almost accusing richly-shining-dark-brown eyes. Solid looking figure (not skinny! not 'fat', but, very full-bodied, as birds go). Thanks. I do hope someone can offer an answer, here, for I'd love to know more, re: this eagle, falcon, hawk..big bird!
What you saw was a Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis). It's an extremely variable species, but the red tail is almost always present in all the morphs. If you want to see lots of pictures of them, simply go to images.yahoo.com and put Buteo jamaicensis or red-tailed hawk into the search bar and you'll get a lot to look at.
BTW if you want to see a very FAMOUS NY redtail, then search for Pale Male. He's probably the most photographed redtail in existence. (Here's his website link - http://www.palemale.com/ There are also some pictures of a male American Kestral (Falco sparverius) there as well.
N.B. I'm always fascinated by folks who thumbs down answers when they don't know the answer themselves. A big, red tailed hawk spotted by someone in NYC can only be one thing, a red tail hawk -- unless some European Buzzard happened to have escaped from the Bronx Zoo and that's about the likelihood of being hit by a meteorite tonite as you walk home.
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almost accusing richly-shining-dark-brown eyes. Solid looking figure (not skinny! not 'fat', but, very full-bodied, as birds go). Thanks. I do hope someone can offer an answer, here, for I'd love to know more, re: this eagle, falcon, hawk..big bird!
