Hawk Identification, Written By Chris Biro, Copyright 25 February 2010.

Identifying hawk species can be tricky. It takes study and practice. Here is a link to a good educational hawk identification presentation. It is a 42 Mb Power Point presentation so can take awhile to download. If you are like me, you will need to review this several times and fairly often.

HMANA ID Presentation Download Link

For more information here are some good books for learning to identify hawks:

Hawks from Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors In Flight by Jerry Liguori and David Sibley

Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors by Sibley, Sutton, Dunne

A Photographic Guide to North American Raptors by Brian Wheeler and William Clark

Chris Biro