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Raptor ID please

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.

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