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Southwest USA Raptors ID (1 Viewer)

Pedro Maia

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Portugal
I´m not familiar with most USA birds so I ask confirmation/correction of the following IDs (pictures taken last week):

Clark County Wetlands Park, Nevada

1 - Sharp-shinned hawk?

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2 - Torrey, Utah

Red-tailed hawk?

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Johnson Canyon Road, Kanab, Utah

3 - American Goshawk (juvenile)?

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4 - Swainson´s hawk?

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5 - Swainson´s hawk?

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1 - sharp-shinned - note squared-off tail-tip when tail is folded
2 - red-tailed - belly band suggests it, patagial bar confirms it
3 - I'll go for juvenile coopers' hawk. Goshawk would have narrower, wavier tail bars (usually with thin white margins), and whiter eyebrow.
4 & 5 - not a species I know well, but both look good for Swainson's to me. Note faint, narrow barring on the tails, long primaries.
 

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