Submitted by efthfj t3_12581ww in washingtondc
BasedDog69 t1_je4zjj7 wrote
Reply to comment by verbalddos in This giant hawk hanging around the Kennedy Center on Sunday by efthfj
I remember seeing a red tailed hawk last summer chilling on a bench near the monuments. I also thought that was odd behavior. I know they are pretty territorial and that is roughly the same area. Any chance that it’s the same hawk that has some weird tendencies or is it more likely that there is something that is affecting multiple hawks in the area? (Presuming most illnesses would have killed off the one I saw in early summer which I don’t know enough about diseases to know)
verbalddos t1_je59h8w wrote
It's not the same hawk as they molt the juvenile feathers and get the famous red tail after the first year. West Nile affects a lot of birds in the area it's transmitted by mosquitoes. Falconers and the DNR sometimes work together to vaccinate wild birds each year.
BasedDog69 t1_je5dvdp wrote
Ahhh, I think that makes sense.
Birds are so neat. Thank you for the education on this!
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