Re: [SBB] Hurting Hawks

[Pati Rouzer <[[email protected]]>]

SFBBO might be able to help with the ID also.

Pati Rouzer
Palo Alto
--- mary keitelman <[[email protected]]> wrote:

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> Dave,if you saved teh breastbone of the 'hawk-sized'
> animal, perhaps you could turn it in to either the
> Ed Levin Park HQ or to another scientific
> organization (PRBO, GGRO, ... http://www.prbo.org/ 
> http://www.ggro.org/ ) -- where they would have an
> expert, or perhaps more likely, access to an expert
> -- who could ID the bone as to which species it
> is.Thanks for reporting this!Mary Keitelman From:
> [[email protected]]:
> [[email protected]]te: Tue, 7 Aug 2007
> 18:22:50 -0700Subject: [SBB] Hurting Hawks
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> Hi Birders-
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> Went up to Ed Levin Park late this afternoon, since 
> I haven't been there for a while. Where the nature
> trail passes under the first 
> tree there was an adult Red-tailed Hawk moving
> around in dense 
> foliage where the branches touch the ground. It
> looked healthy, but flew weakly. 
> It was causing a Red-shouldered Hawk up in the tree
> to be noisy. I located the 
> RSH and noticed that it was missing its right eye!
> It flew off with no problem. 
> Farther down the trail I came upon a pile of
> Red-shouldered Hawk flight 
> feathers. There were enough of them that the bird
> had to have been rendered 
> flightless. In the middle of the pile was the
> breastbone of a hawk-sized animal. 
> Could have been the hawk or its victim. Whatever
> happened, it must have 
> been a hell of a fight. 
>  
> Dave Weber,
> Milpitas
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