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(Message started by: KK Hui on Oct 11^th, 2004, 1:43pm)

Title: Raptor - ID anyone?
Post by KK Hui on Oct 11^th, 2004, 1:43pm

Photo #1
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v22/kkhui/Avian/111004_05x.jpg

Photo #2
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v22/kkhui/Avian/111004_06x.jpg

MPNR
11 Oct 2004

Title: Re: Raptor - ID anyone?
Post by guest on Oct 11^th, 2004, 1:51pm

Nice shot!!
It must be a Harrier to me. How about a Eastern Marsh Harrier as a guess?

Title: Re: Raptor - ID anyone?
Post by Uncle_Tall on Oct 11^th, 2004, 11:06pm

Female / Immature Harrier can be sometimes difficult to separate.
Mature female Hen or Pied Harrier should have a paler underbody and white rump.
Abscence of these characteristics make me think that it is a Eastern Marsh Harrier.
By the way, could anyone tell us how to distinguish Eastern and Western Marsh Harrier?

Look also at the beautiful facial disk on the second picture. Really owl-like!