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I fly over which has me confused not able to ID it . Please help
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Maybe an immature light morph, they lack the red thighs that this species normally has. But it has the eye stripe and on a red-tail the primaries would be spread out differently. Also, red-tails have a mostly dark head where this bird has a mostly light head.
It might be a light-morph Red-tailed hawk because of the belly band, but wait for more knowledgable folks to weigh in.