Found sat on a post in North Wales, very weak, taken to a wild bird sanctuary, first thought was an immature Buzzard, but, doesn't look like one, about 14 inches
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Can anyone tell me what this is? Bird of Prey content
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Small pic but I'm pretty sure that's a female peregrine falcon. Good spot.
Edit - that's better!...reviewing the bigger pic it looks like it might be a female hobby.
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I reckon its a crow
(Wow, lovely pic.)
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Peregrine Falcon..
brilliant pic of an awesome bird...
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Baby Robin killer.
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Cool pic.
Used to have peregrine falcons nesting in the quarry where I worked many years ago. Cool birds
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Drac - Moderator
Baby Robin killer.
Err, no - it's not a photo of my cat!Posted 1 year ago # -
I'd be more inclined to say peregrine/saker cross
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My son, who LOVES birds, has just looked it up in his bird book and insists it's definitely a buzzard.
It must be, therefore, a buzzard.
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I'm pretty sure it's a juvenile peregrine - looks a lot like one. However, could also be an escapee cross of any manner of big captive-bred falcon - peregrine/saker/gyr etc. Huge colour variation possible. Wasn't anywhere near the Clocaenog forest was it? Pen y Bryn Falconry is currently training a young saker/gyr that has a habit of going AWOL. It is usually fitted with telemetry and I think it may be a bit darker than the one in the pic (which is great btw!) but might be worth giving them a call.
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My son, who LOVES birds, has just looked it up in his bird book and insists it's definitely a buzzard.
It must be, therefore, a buzzard.
Sorry but that's rubbish. It's nothing like a buzzard, other than the fact it's a raptor.
I do go along with the theory it's a juvenile or a peregrine cross. If it's a cross, then it ought to be ringed, with contact details.
This is a peregrine/saker IIRC:
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It's a surly faced shitehawk
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That's way out tadeuszkrieger - I teach many SFS's on a daily basis.
That's a boz-eyed egret.Posted 1 year ago # -
I thought a Buzzard, we get a lot here.
Got the right colours, brown and brown flecked chest, yellow legs.
No expert though.Perigrines are blue/grey'ish aren't they?
Tell I've been on loads of the local forestry bird watching courses can't you. The long dark patches dropping away from the eyes suggest a Hobby, but I've never seen one. Everything else looks Buzzard'ish apart from those eye markings.
Surely someone knows.Posted 1 year ago # -
females are a brownish colour - both sexes have that distinctive 'tache though.
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It looks quite grumpy in the first pic, whatever it is.
Cracking photos though
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It's a Muslamic Gay Swan
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I take it back now. I said Buzzard, then Hobby. I now also think it's a juvenile Perigrine.
We get a fair few Buzzards here, in Leighton Buzzard! It's proper hard to identify these birds from piccies.
This is always what I was led to believe a Perigrine Falcon would look like.
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Baby robin - see the quality of singletrackworld bird ID on here: http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/any-twitchers-in-the-house
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(Female Peregrine BTW)
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That is not a Buzzard, by any standards. Way too small.
I think that you might find it to be a Merlin actually.
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Too big for a Merlin. They are proper tiny, like thrush sized.
Hobby.
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Average Merlin is between 26cm - 35cm. How big are the Thrushes where you live??!!
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Have just spoken to my young Brother-in-Law, who has confirmed that it is indeed a female peregrine.
His credentials?
http://markgtelfer.co.uk/listing/10th/
Bloody geek...!
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It looks quite grumpy in the first pic, whatever it is.
All birds of prey tend to look a bit grumpy.
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His credentials?
Your link provided a fascinating and undoubtedly useful, recipe for " Water-soluble mounting medium for genitalia "
......I'm popping down to the shops tomorrow to buy the ingredients.
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Peregrine, saker and gyr falcons come in all kinds of colour variants and cross breeding, it's difficult to tell between them sometimes. I took a pic ages ago of a surprisingly tame falcon in some local woodland (pic was on fotopic so has now disappeared
) but it took me bloody ages (and some advice on here and from a local Bird of Prey centre) to work out it was a saker/gyr cross which had apparently gone AWOL from some breeder a week before.Nice pic - the bird manages to look both bored and pissed off!
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tadeuszkrieger - Member
"It's a surly faced shitehawk"
Cue tea/keyboard interface
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