Did you see the picture of the two birds flying? Looking at the relative
sizes, if there are two species there then it must be two males or two females.
Peter Shute
wrote on Tuesday, 26 August 2008 1:46 PM:
> Belinda,
> Are you sure about the 'mating type things'? I haven't had an
> awfully close look at the pics, but I indeed think you have
> both a C Sparrowhawk and a Brown Goshawk there. Could it be
> that the behaviour is rather territorial than sexual? Nikolas
>
> ----------------
> Nikolas Haass
>
> Sydney, NSW
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Belinda Cassidy <>
> To: Birding-aus <>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:03:59 PM
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Question about inter-marrying between raptors
>
> I'm having a hard time ID'ing our local pair of raptors, who
> appear to be nesting and doing `mating' type things like
> chasing each other at high speed around the forest, and
> making lots of noise (especially her).
>
> Some may remember this handsome guy:
>
> http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/raptor_1.jpg
>
> http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/baza-
sparrowhawk-900.jpg(chasing
off a Baza)
...who is obviously a collared sparrowhawk, with the massively long
middle toe.
Well Mr handsome Sparrowhawk has met a huge scarey monster of a woman:
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/SparrowHawk1.jpg(sitting)
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/femalehawk.jpg(sitting)
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/CollaredSparrowHawk4.jpg(in
flight)
Blurry picture, you can just make out her feet and toe size:
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/blurryhawk.jpg
Do you think its possible that the collared hawk male fancies a female
Brown Goshawk?? And will they get married?
Cheersm
Belinda
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