welcome to my raptor taxonomy conspiracy board
Hi all, I’m Hawk, and this is my hawk blog. As you can tell, I like hawks. I’m a computer and electrical engineer, hobbyist photographer, accipitriforme identifier(and general obsessor), and guy with 20-something years of experience rummaging in the dirt for bugs. I am not an ornithologist or professional rehabber nor do I play one on TV.
This blog is mostly for posting wildlife content/naturalist memes and shilling for iNaturalist(join iNaturalist btw). My favorite hawks are Red Shouldered Hawk, Tyrant Hawk-Eagle, and Oriental Honey Buzzard. My favorite non-hawk birds are Shrikes, Scrub-Jays, and Great Potoos. My favorite non-bird animals are Marbled Polecats, Mountain Lions, and Foxes. I think all kinds of bugs are cool, but I’ve got a fondness for cutworm moths, ladybugs, and hoverflies. I'm in a parasocial relationship with salticus peckhamae.
Join my Naturalist Discord for pictures of bugs, taxonomy discourse, and extremely niche natureposting
I’m autistic and bad at tone, so if I come off as blunt in any responses/messages its usually not on purpose. Please let me know if anything I say is in poor taste and I’ll fix it ASAP.
You can find my own photography under #hawks photos, my identifications under #raptor id, my original memes under #hawk tourism, and my personal posts under #hawk noises. A few other random tags are #hawk screeches for anything I consider ‘discourse’, #hawk talks for responses to other people, #hawks guides for iNaturalist user guides, and #hawks faves for my favorite organisms.
You can also find me on iNaturalist, on flickr(if you want to see more of my photography), and occasionally with my good buddy Kestrel over on @inaturalist-unofficial
As it says in my description, I’m a top identifier of Accipitriformes(Hawks, Eagles, Kites and Allies). While I do specialize in “hawks”, as nebulous a category as that is, I can identify most Accipitriformes worldwide, and if I can’t, I can definitely point you to someone who can. I don’t know anything about falcons, but Kestrel does. My accuracy with any other kind of bird is up to God.
If I’ve commented on your photo/post with a species ID, its because I noticed there wasn’t one in the original post/tags and I think its valuable to include.
In conclusion, join iNaturalist. You want to sooooo bad
