Correction

Two people let us know that we had misidentified the hawk on the cover of last week’s Warwick Advertiser.

Here are those letters:

Great cover photo.

Unfortunately, the captions misidentified the bird, in hard print and online, as a Red-Tailed hawk, which the pictured bird is not. It’s a Rough-Legged hawk, a species that Winters in our area.

Our org. has always offered to help you with wildlife identifications; please reach out next time to avoid this kind of thing on your cover, of all places.

Jay Westerveld
www.nynh.us

The pictures on the cover of this weeks advertiser are not of a Red Tail Hawk.

The bird is a light phase Rough-Legged Hawk. A rare bird that spends the winters out in the black dirt region of orange county. Great pics though!

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rough-legged_Hawk/id

If you are interested, the Rough-Leggeds come in a gorgeous Dark Phase, too, and there are a few of them out at the Black Dirt region.

Carol Linguanti