2nd. ID with a lousey photo!!!

[Jacqueline Burrell]

Seen at the seaside golf course at Ain Suhkana, Gulf of Suez

[Stephen R]

I'd have a guess at marsh harrier, cant really tell from the photo though,

[macrourus]

Its a Steppe Buzzard buteo buteo vulpinus

[Nathan Kipling]

Steppe buzzards have reddish tails, don't they? A marsh harrier would be either less uniform (male) or really dark (female), wouldn't it?

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I wonder if the head which is strongly in shadow is in fact pale because the dark thighs otherwise seem to me to make it a saker which consequently may or may not be wild.

:smile:

[AndyB]

Looks like a buteo to me so I'm sure Andrea has it nailed with Steppe Buzzard. Here's a link to a photo of Steppe Buzzard (http://www.astrocape.org.za/WCNP/Buzzard_SteppeJuv19067pa.jpg)

Seems to have pale throat and upper breast which doesn't fit Marsh Harrier. Doesn't seem to have a falcon shape to me for Saker (esp those long legs). Tail does appear to be reddish brown.

[macrourus]

That Steppe Buzzard MUSt have a reddish tail its something overstressed and over enphatized by field guide...that's right for TYPICAl vulpinus and in all morph but some grey-brown (like our bird)... also, in North Africa, Egypt included, and Central Mediterr. there are lote intermediate buteo - vulpinus with a barely rust tinge over browinish tail, cheifly if young ...

Does not has this bird a Falco sp. structure or jizz

cheers

Andrea Corso