lkuma

21/10/2007
塱原 Long Valley

kmatthew

Looks like a Juv. Crested Goshawk.

oLDcaR

For yours refer.  Photo taken in same place with kuma
Don't know it is a same bird or not !

22/10/2007
塱原 Long Valley

kmatthew

hard to say if they are the same bird or not, but with closer look, especially the last two photos remind me of female or juv. Northern Sparrowhawk. it looks slightly less bulky then the Crested Goshawk, the narrow bars across the chest to vent and no streaks. It will be great to hear from some experts.

lpaul

Although these are different birds, they are both Northern Sparrowhawks, the first one is a juvenile, the second looks like an adult female.  Id is based on structure with a proportionatly long distinctly square tail, bulging primaries and rather pointed wing tip.  Pluamge features which clinch id are the fine streaking over the throat, long pale supercilium and rather dark ear coverts.

lkuma

Thanks Falcon, oLDcaR and Paul