Red-tailed Hawk in Hennepin County
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Common in Hennepin County in the Summer season

Paul McDowall comments: My neighbor, Mike Kasbohm, snapped this last year (but the bird is still hanging out in the field behind our houses) We thought it was a Gyrfalcon.

Paul Budde comments: There was a albino or leucistic Red-tailed Hawk reported near Purgatory Creek and Black Dog last winter, but I never saw it. I also don't know how someone identified it as a Red-tailed.

Anthony Hertzel comments (based on another photo): The bulge in the trailing area of the secondaries visible on the bird in flight is a dead giveaway that this is a Red-tailed.

Photo by Mike Kasbohm