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Raptor ID - New Jersey, yesterday (CAUTION graphic, dead deer)

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Posted by Rebecka on January 26, 2011 at 12:01 PM
Raptor ID - New Jersey, yesterday (CAUTION graphic, dead deer)
Can someone please help me identify this raptor? Taken yesterday in NW NJ. Thanks in advance!

Rebecka
Posted by Luke Ormand on January 26, 2011 at 12:29 PM
Almost certainly a red-tailed hawk. With all of the snow we have been getting these birds are getting desperate...today/tomorrow's snowstorm is only making things worse.

- Luke
Posted by Don Grall on January 26, 2011 at 2:05 PM
Definitely a Red-tailed Hawk
Posted by David Graham on January 27, 2011 at 1:42 AM
Juvenile red-tailed hawk! Red-tails, even in times of "plenty" (as regards prey species populations), have no compunctions about gorging on fresh road-kills. But I've noticed over the years that the carrion-feeding red-tails are, with rare exceptions, juveniles.

Dave Graham, Estelline, SD