Hi Titus,
Raptors are a very difficult group at any time, but in this instance
look at the feet, and compare them to any Accipiter and I am sure you
will change your thoughts,
Best for now
Brian

On 3/22/13, Titus Imboma <timboma@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear Peter,
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> Thanks for this great shot.This looks like an immature accipiter  Looking at
> the last picture to the left, long tail, spotted under tail coverts on the
> 1st and the 2nd picture, the dark mustache on the throat, suggest it should
> be Norther Goshawk.
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> Regards,
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> Titus
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> --- On Thu, 3/21/13, peter wairasho <wairasho@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: peter wairasho <wairasho@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [KENYABIRDSNET] Cassin's Hawk Eagle @ Imenti Forest, Meru!
> To: "KBsN" <kenyabirdsnet@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 21, 2013, 9:47 AM
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>       Dear All,
> On a our way back 28 Feb 2013 from Meru National Park on a
> productive raptor survey with the Raptor Working Group of Nature Kenya, we
> decided to make a brief stopover at Imenti forest to look for some
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> birds that we might see. On a quick glance at the forest from the roadside
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> We did not have a consensus pertaining to its real ID and so we decided to
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> excitement when Simon Thomset and Rob Davies confirmed to us that it was a
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> Cassin`s Hawk Eagle(attached above),which is extremely rare here! It`s
> primarily a Central and West African forest raptor which unfortunatey does
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> reach as the forest of extreme western Uganda . Its first documented
> sighting is a specimen that was collected in Mt.Elgon in 1926. Its second
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> Other observers included Darcy Ogada,Ben Mugambi and Shiv
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> Thanks to the Peregrine Fund for sponsoring the trip and
> Ben`s Ecological Safaris for the logistical support.
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