Red goshawks

A red goshawk is a goshawk with red or red- orange vermiculation on the chest and belly. And the underwing is also reddish. A goshawk can mimic a Cooper’s hawk with coloration and also with wing movements, but this is not true mimicry as it does not serve a purpose. The NG can fly with wing beats that are the same depth as a Cooper’s hawk and the wing beats can be stiff and straight up and down, as of a Cooper’s hawk. I have noticed this condition with the NG, but it only seems to occur when the NG is at low altitude, such as when the hawk is below 50- 75 feet altitude. I assume that this is the most efficient way for the raptor to fly at this low altitude. But the NG does not always
use this method of wing beats at low altitude.

So, what does this mean? I will jump ahead of myself with this statement— if you think that you have observed a NG— then you possibly - probably have observed a Goshawk. Now my detractors are starting to get irritated. I might as well carry on, about my sighting of red NG. Here are the locations: Rockport, TX, more than one daily sighting of female, and a sighting of a male. Bacliff, TX, a female soaring. Georgetown, TX, a female over the Jon Berry Preserve. The suburb of Houston, Kemah. A female in flight.

Arizona- Tucson, many daily sightings — all in flight of male and female. And over a period of five years. Goodyear— a male in flight.

Anacortes,WA. Daily sightings over a three year period, of female or females, and have observed a male. All in flight. To be precise, only four or five daily sightings over a 20- year period. NB.