The bird is a Broad-winged Hawk, yes, but it's not of the dark morph. The
dark appearance in the photos is apparently just a silhouette effect of
seeing the bird against the very bright sky. Look at the photos carefully,
especially the sixth one in the series, and you can clearly see patterning
of dark barring on the paler background of the underparts. Dark-morph adult
Broad-wings are uniformly dark on the underside of the body. Thanks for
posting these photos; they're very instructive for showing the variation in
wing posture for Broad-wings in flight, and for showing how apparent colors
in photographs can be misleading.
Kenn Kaufman
Rocky Ridge, Ohio
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From: "Matthew Valencic" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:55 AM
Subject: [Ohio-birds] Dark hawk identified
> Well, the very experienced (EXPERT) birders have weighed in and the
> unanimous agreement is Dark Morph Broad Wing and supposedly very rare!
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> Thanks to all of you for your help.
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> For those who did not look at the pictures you can find them at
> http://picasaweb.google.com/mvalencic/UnknownHawk.
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> Regards,
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> Matt Valencic
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> Chagrin Falls, OH
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