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Identification help please

Identification help please


Postby rockhopper » Fri Sep 22, 2017 8:59 am

I've looked through various potos and sites to try to identify the bird in the photos below - they're not good as they were taken at extreme zoom and moving but I was wondering if the bird is a juvenile golden eagle or am I completely wrong ? - anyone have any ideas please ?

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Re: Identification help please

Postby KatTai » Fri Sep 22, 2017 10:46 am

Not an eagle, looks like a common buzzard to me.
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Re: Identification help please

Postby Mal Grey » Fri Sep 22, 2017 10:49 am

Tend to agree.
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Re: Identification help please

Postby GillSte » Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:48 pm

It is for sure a Goldie, not a buzzard. It's a young one, as you correctly identified. The colour pattern in your photo gives it away, the white all along the lower surface of the wings. You'll see pictures if you google "juvenile golden eagle in flight". For example, http://jacumbabirding.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/EGK_6003.jpg
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Re: Identification help please

Postby BoyVertiginous » Fri Sep 22, 2017 12:55 pm

Nice, where was the sighting, rh, if you don't mind me asking?
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Re: Identification help please

Postby rockhopper » Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:18 pm

Many thanks for all your help everyone - it's been very useful - cheers :)

BoyVertiginous - I was part way up Sgurr an Airgid and it was soaring above Morvich and Strath Croe before flying off southwards.
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Re: Identification help please

Postby Alteknacker » Fri Sep 22, 2017 2:40 pm

GillSte wrote:It is for sure a Goldie, not a buzzard. ...


I'm really surprised. I haven't ever had good views of goldies, but all the pics I've seen seem to indicate spread primaries, a heavier set body, and a longer head.... I would never have guessed this as a goldie.

I'll be interested to get David Main's view also...
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Re: Identification help please

Postby Mal Grey » Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:53 pm

GillSte wrote:It is for sure a Goldie, not a buzzard. It's a young one, as you correctly identified. The colour pattern in your photo gives it away, the white all along the lower surface of the wings. You'll see pictures if you google "juvenile golden eagle in flight". For example, http://jacumbabirding.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/EGK_6003.jpg


Pleased to be wrong on this one, thanks for the tip. I'd see the dark areas on the front underside of the wing and thought buzzard, but you're right it should have had a dark strip along the trailing edge too. I'm learnin'!
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Re: Identification help please

Postby rockhopper » Sat Sep 23, 2017 11:33 am

Thanks and apologies for the hassle.
I'd initially looked at the RSPB site as we're members but just wasn't sure which it was - of course, the poor quality of my photos at extreme zoom doesn't help :roll: - cheers :)
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Re: Identification help please

Postby Sgurr » Mon Sep 25, 2017 5:26 pm

We saw eagles on Sgurr an Aigrid, and I'm sure I remember others reporting them there as well.
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