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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

Chris

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.

I reckon its a crow 😉

(Wow, lovely pic.)

Peregrine Falcon..

brilliant pic of an awesome bird…

Baby Robin killer.

Cool pic.

Used to have peregrine falcons nesting in the quarry where I worked many years ago. Cool birds

Drac – Moderator
Baby Robin killer.

Err, no – it’s not a photo of my cat!

I’d be more inclined to say peregrine/saker cross

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.

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.

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:

It’s a surly faced shitehawk

That’s way out tadeuszkrieger – I teach many SFS’s on a daily basis.
That’s a boz-eyed egret.

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.

females are a brownish colour – both sexes have that distinctive ‘tache though.

It looks quite grumpy in the first pic, whatever it is.

Cracking photos though

It’s a Muslamic Gay Swan

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.

Baby robin – see the quality of singletrackworld bird ID on here: http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/any-twitchers-in-the-house

(Female Peregrine BTW)

That is not a Buzzard, by any standards. Way too small.

I think that you might find it to be a Merlin actually.

Too big for a Merlin. They are proper tiny, like thrush sized.

Hobby.

Average Merlin is between 26cm – 35cm. How big are the Thrushes where you live??!!

Same size as a merlin

song thrush stats
Mistle thrush stats

OK…give or take a cm or two 🙂

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…!

It looks quite grumpy in the first pic, whatever it is.

All birds of prey tend to look a bit grumpy.

His credentials?

http://markgtelfer.co.uk/listing/10th/

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.

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!

tadeuszkrieger – Member
“It’s a surly faced shitehawk”
Cue tea/keyboard interface 😆