Sonya Murray just letting you know that's a wonderful photo!
It's more like a Square Tailed Kite, possibly a juvenile, though, to my eye. Compare the tail shape to Wedge Tail photos on google images. I highly recommend Gordon Beruldsen's "Which Bird of Prey is that?" book which helped us in the ID.
Great photo though, well done! It's very difficult to get a photo good enough to get any sort of id with raptors!
I struggled to word it properly, and wondered whether I should send it...I didn't want to sound nasty.
ReplyDeleteRaptors are really hard to ID! They're rarely co-operative.
I can have a shot of identifying birds for you if you ever come across ones you're not sure of - I'm in Perth, so some of our birds are different, but I've got books that cover Australia wide, and a lot of experience in working out what stuff is. Your bird photos have been consistently excellent for ID's. Your New Holland Honeyeaters are instantly recognisable as NHH's, rather than the very similar White-Cheeked Honeyeaters.
My husband took to identifying raptors with great passion - he grew up spotting aircraft, so he's got an eye for wing shape and tail shape and proportions which I need a chart for with raptors!
I'm good with honeyeaters and the like, and not bad with waders.
With Wedgetails the diamond shaped (not actually wedge shaped, what were they thinking!?) tail is really distinctive.
Sure will, I'll have a look.
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