In addition to accipiters, Red-tailed Hawks often do a flap, flap,
flap glide. You probably won't see that written anywhere as a trait but
I often observe this in RTHAs.
Joanne
On 1/30/2015 5:07 PM, Michael Boardman wrote:
> I have a beginner question: just finished a snowshoe across the Grover airfield in N. Yarmouth and scared up a fairly large raptor (hawk sized) but of course forgot to bring my binocs. Didn't get a look a the head as it was flying away, but it had a distinctive flap flap glide beat pattern, light underneath, darkish (grey?) above. Is the wing beat any help in ID'ing a good sized raptor?
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