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    David DesRochers
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    Photo taken at the Great Swamp in Morris County, New Jersey, March 14th. Canon 40D, 500 MM lens ISO 640 f/4.5, 1/2500 sec, gitzo tripod with Wimberly head. Not sure it this is a Northen Harrier or Broad-winged hawk.

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    Rich Williams
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    looks like a young red-tailed hawk to me

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    I agree (I think!), a young red-tail, Buteo jamaicensis. Sibley does not show a yellow eye in young Broad-wings. Size would tell (Broad-wing smaller), but impossible to determine from the image. For sure not a harrier- head too large compared to body, body too fat, and it doesn't show the ear patches that a harrier would (like an owl).

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    The bird looks like a Buteo spp. The pattern of the white marks on the scapular feathers is typical of a Red-tail at all ages. The tail pattern would nicely for a juv. or 1st year Red-tail, and there is enough of the underside visible to suggest the typical Red-tail dark belly-patch.

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    My home stomping ground, the Swamp -- juvie RT for sure. Harriers have mostly left at this point and Broad Wings have yet to arrive.

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