Bird of Prey

I've no idea what bird this is. I'm not familar with Colorado's wildlife. This guy (gal?) was floating on a thermal, hanging around a particular rock formation at the Red Rock Park along with its mate.

This is not an awesome picture - my big "lens" don't have a huge range, so to give ya'all a bigger, more visible image (click on it), I cropped and lightened it - which eroded the picture quality. One of the downsides of using a digital camera.

If anyone wants to take a stab at figuring out what this bird is, please share.

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And he lost a friend but kept his memory

The REAL Pikachu. They are endangered.
Pikachu and some other creatures and plants residing at the very tiptops of the mountains - and ONLY there - are threatened or endangered now. Their biology is so sensitive to any temperature changes that any changes in the norms has a devastating effect on them.

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