{"id":1021,"date":"2015-10-01T14:33:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T14:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2018-10-02T12:08:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T12:08:33","slug":"northern-red-tailed-hawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/?p=1021","title":{"rendered":"“Northern” Red-tailed Hawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fall is a superb time of year to enjoy Red-tailed Hawks. By early-mid October, the first of many northern breeders descend upon southern Ontario. These northern birds are richly colored throughout and generally have heavy-duty blackish belly bands (some examples showcasing a near-solid “vest”).The entire head and nape is typically “washed” with rich auburn tones throughout. They’re cracking birds and quite distinct from the light, blondish summertime ‘tail of southern and south-central Ontario. They were named by W. E. Clyde Todd (1950): “Northern” Red-tailed Hawks, subspecies: abieticola<\/em>, meaning “dweller of the fir.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Figure 1<\/strong>: Some examples, from L to R, photographed by Dan MacNeal (8 Dec 2014), Joe Wilson (1 Dec 2014), Luke Berg (6 Nov 2014), Raymond J Barlow (23 Feb 2008). The bottom bird was photographed in Minnesota on 26 Oct 2008 by Jerry Liguori.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2<\/strong>: Juvenile Red-tails are often difficult to confidently place to subspecies level, but Rick Collins of Ottawa, Ontario photographed one just E of Ottawa that is on one end of the spectrum; the safe and identifiable one. A consistent identifier with these northern juveniles is that their plumage is much darker throughout, esp throughout the head. Note this\u00a0comparative picture of Rick’s bird (at left) with a fairly typical example of an Eastern (borealis<\/em>) juvenile (at right). Also, many examples showcase striking belly bands, sometimes forming a fused “vest.” <\/span><\/p>\n

For those who have yet to see a dead ringer abieticola<\/em> Red-tailed, I hope you see your first this fall and I’d love to hear all about your encounter \ud83d\ude42\u00a0For more Identification notes and Natural History information, please visit:\u00a0https:\/\/northernredtails.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Lastly, for eBird users,\u00a0abieticola\u00a0<\/em>Red-tails can be selected as an option when entering your data:\u00a0http:\/\/ebird.org\/content\/canada\/news\/identifying-northern-red-tailed-hawks\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fall is a superb time of year to enjoy Red-tailed Hawks. By early-mid October, the first of many northern breeders descend upon southern Ontario. These northern birds are richly colored throughout and generally have heavy-duty blackish belly bands (some examples showcasing a near-solid “vest”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10980,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eontbird.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}