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Ferruginous Hawk
Dark (Rufous) Morph
Stanley County, SD
November 29, 2011
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I should note that Brian Wheeler in
"Raptors of Western North America"
would classify this as a rufous morph. Most literature doesn't make a
distinction
between a dark morph and rufous morph Ferruginous hawk, but Wheeler does.
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