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Juvenile Cooper's?

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Posted by Philip Hodgkins on September 9, 2016 at 12:41 PM
Juvenile Cooper's?
Another photographer identified it as this. Doesn't seem to quite fit; the head feathers look wrong, but I don't mind being corrected. Shot at the Savannah NWR this morning.
Posted by David Graham on September 10, 2016 at 2:26 AM
Juvenile retailed hawk. Note the relatively stocky tarso- metatarsus and toes. A Coopers would have a  more slender foot and toes

Dave
Posted by Philip Hodgkins on September 10, 2016 at 9:13 AM
Thanks, David. Glad to be right about being wrong!enlightened
Posted by Dennis Plank on September 10, 2016 at 9:33 AM
Phil.  It's not super clear at this angle, but the breast streaking looks pretty horizontal,  The juvenile Coopers' is vertical and fairly dark.

 
Posted by Mia McPherson on September 11, 2016 at 1:40 PM
It looks like a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk to me. A Red-tailed Hawk would have a belly band, this one doesn't. And if I zoom in I can see some red in the shoulder.