As you can see, the head of the male of this subspecies is – beak excepted – a study in “basic black”.
And, as you will see in following posts, even if the flash of an individual’s tail – or part of his/her chest – is all you can see, it is very easy to identify an adult red-tail’s gender.
This post’s hero was feasting on/“trashing” a so-called Cape Lilac in a West Leederville lane at 12.08 pm on 10 May 2023.
One of the world’s rarer birds was less than 100 metres away from a busy street, circa 100 metres from our front door, and less than 200 metres from the Perth-Fremantle railway line.
A straight-line flight to Perth Railway Station would be a deal shorter than 3 kilometres; red-tails have no reason to go there, but they do now venture into the CBD, when and wherever its trees offer food.