Are you an Alberta birdwatcher? Red-tailed hawks are one of the most common buteo hawk species in the province, and if you’re a birder, you know where to find them!
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is looking for your help. They’re seeking photographs of red-tailed hawks taken in the province, so fire up that camera.
The following message was sent to the Alberta Bird mailing list.
I’m hoping you can help me out a bit. There are some very interesting photos of breeding Red-tailed Hawks from the area surrounding Edmonton. Some of the birds here look very much like light-morph Harlan’s Hawks, and Taverner collected a light-morph Harlan’s breeding near Nevis in the 1920s.
Jerry Liguori and I are interested in learning more about what kinds of Red-tailed Hawks are present in the area. We are looking for any/all photos of Red-tailed Hawks from Alberta, especially those of breeding birds. Photos of both ventral and dorsal aspects of the bird are most informative, as determining what the upperside of the tail looks like is critical.
Birders can email them to me at heraldpetrel@gmail.com or post them to the Flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/groups/rtha/
Brian L Sullivan
Pacific Grove, CA
eBird/AKN Project Leader
Photographic Editor,
Birds of North America Online
http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/BNA
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
hi there i was looking up alberta hawks and came across this article. i recently captured a photo of a hawk who just caught a gopher when i was going thru a drive thru to get my own lunch. unfortunately i didnt see any red but then again wasnt looking. I posted th picture on my face book account. just thrilled to have been so close, i jumped out my car to get the shot, the hawk didnt fly away. I can tell u ive seen this hawk, or the pair of hawks in my area, it frequently hunts this specific area. if ur interested i could tell u the location, or roughly there around. my camera isnt that good, but what a beautiful bird.