Participant Photo: A real treat!

Wondering if someone can help me identify this beauty that showed up this morning on the hydro pole!

Submitter: Donna Allard

Place: Wabush, NL, Canada

Submission Date: August 7, 2015

Categories: Predatory birds

3 comments on “Participant Photo: A real treat!”

Aleene Jones on August 8th, 2015 - 1:36pm

I’ll hazard a guess, from the fine streaking on the breast, it could be a Coopers Hawk???

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Chelsea Benson on August 10th, 2015 - 11:42am

I ran your photo through a new app here at the Lab of Ornithology: http://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/photo-id/ and the app identified your photo as a Merlin.

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- Aleene Jones on August 13th, 2015 - 1:38pm
  
  I was curious also.
  Good Job Chelsea.
  
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