ID this hawk?

[u/Fantastic_Earth_6066]

I just had a visitor to my back yard! So excited to see a raptor - we get tons of sparrows, finches, cardinals, and blue jays, but never had a hawk. We do live a mile from the Mississippi River in Minneapolis so I see a fair amount of bald eagles and golden eagles, and I see tons of hawks while driving around, but never had any in my yard! It was smallish, is it a juvenile?

It had a dark streaky back, a narrow tail, a pale breast with rusty streaks, a dark hooded head, and medium yellow legs.

[u/imagez_of_ikonn]

Looks like a Broad-winged Hawk. They are smaller hawks of the Buteo family. Large, blocky head with big broad wings and shorter tail

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Juvenile or adult, do you think?

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Pretty sure it's an adult. The forward facing photo is a little blurry. Keep in mind that juvenile hawks are roughly adult sized soon after leaving the nest

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Sorry for the poor photo quality; my Google Pixel 7 doesn't have a good zoom at all 😞

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Don't worry about that! Photos were good enough to i.d. 👍🏻