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Gray Hawk sighting
Posted by Liz Wheeler
over 7 years ago
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I live in Miami and just saw this hawk on my street - it had just killed a dove. I looked it up and these hawks are supposed to be in So. FL. I have never seen a hawk like this before. Normally I see red shouldered Hawks in the area. It was so exciting to see this amazing bird but I don't know why it would be in So. Florida.
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Liz, it's much more likely that the hawk you saw was a Cooper's Hawk. Gray Hawk has never been recorded in Florida. If you are able to photograph the hawk you saw, please post the photo.
Hi Brian! Looked up Cooper's Hawk and the bird I saw looked more gray and the head seemed different. Maybe it was a falcon? Are they the same size as a hawk? It was raining and I was driving so unfortunately I could not take a photo. We have a pericone falcon in our neighborhood but it's much smaller than the bird I saw.
Falcons are not present in south Florida at this time of year, so your bird was almost certainly a hawk. I still think it was most likely a Cooper's Hawk, but without a photo . . .
I saw a grey hawk when I was riding in a golf cart early in the morning in Doral, Florida .. it had swoopped down to pick up a baby bird...it was so close to me I could see it's eyes turn to look at me as I rode parrallel to it.
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