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What is this bird?

#1 · 01/03/2025, 1:57 PM

Cleon snapped this photo in our front yard. We think it is a juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk, but we are not sure. If you have a guess, please Reply and share it with all of us. Remember, we live in central Illinois, we are in a small neighborhood which does have a good number of big trees - oaks and hickories predominate. Our neighborhood is rural, surrounded by large agriculture fields, we are on a small lake, and across the lake is a riparian woodland which is hundreds of acres. Linda

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#2 · 01/14/2025, 9:34 PM

I think I agree with Red-shouldered. Those wide dark bands look like the pictures in one of my Raptor books.