News, Videos & Other Webcams > Bird ID Help
ID Help: Cooper's Hawk
RCF:
I'm no expert, but it looks like a Cooper's Hawk to me. :)
Cooper's Hawk
Red eye, Slate gray back, dark gray "cap", Long, thin, rounded, banded tail
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/coopers_hawk/id
Doreen:
Tracy I didn't know where to put this.
She was sitting there when I came home today.
There was a male but I didn't get a good picture of him.
What kind of bird is this?
I have a big feeder in the back with lots and lots of house sparrow.
The Peregrine Chick:
Heard back from Praire Wildlife and they haven't received any admissions that would fit the bill so we'll have to wait until Tuesday to hear what the pest control company reports. Hopefully it will be a case of no news is good news.
The Peregrine Chick:
Thanks Leana, your photos were good thank you. I could tell it wasn't a falcon but that left three similar species - one of which I was pretty sure was too large. The three are sharp-shinned, Coopers and Northern Goshawk.
The Goshawk is large, so even though there isn't an easy reference, the bird looked too small and too white on the belly. And the tail end is rounded - Goshawks have very square/flat ended tails.
Sharp-shinned also have squarish tails but the body plumage is more along the lines of Leana's bird but sharpies tend to have a kind of blurred streaking on their breasts. Sharpies have yellow eyes as kids but they aren't the only ones.
My thought is that this is a juvenile Cooper's Hawk based on the size as best as I can estimate, the rounded tail with the white terminal band and the clearly streaked breast markings. Like Sharpies, Coopers too have yellow eyes as juveniles.
Wildlife Haven reports that they haven't received any birds from New Flyer yesterday or today. Will keep you updated.
Leana:
I emailed you the photos Tracy. Hope you can zoom in on them, the lighting was poor which makes them poor quality to start with.
One of the warehouse guys told me they'd called you but I wasn't sure if he has all this facts right. LOL. Glad to hear they did call you.
I hope you hear what happened. Keep us posted!
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version