The US Geological Survey promptly responded about the color-tagged bird pictured below, which I found and reported last Friday...it is a male, hatched in 2010 or earlier and banded at Pleasure Bay Beach, Massachusetts, on March 29, 2013. Researchers are always happy to receive such re-sighting information on their work.
Brian Taber
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Sharp-shinned Hawk
Sharp-shinned Hawk, by Steve Thornhill
