Cooper’s Hawk

Belonging to a family of hawks known as Accipiters, these hawks prey mostly on other birds.

They are excellent flyers, chasing their prey between trees and other vegetation.

Body blue-grey back or dark brown, white underparts, eyes red when mature, their tails are long and barred gray and black.

Their habitat: These hawks cover a very large territory in North America, their population has increased by nesting within urban areas.

Michael on October 26, 2009 at 4:18 pm said:

Beautiful bird! I have a fascination with predator birds such as hawks. Being new to birding, I don’t have any pics yet, but hope to change that soon.

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avian101 on October 27, 2009 at 1:28 am said:

Thank you Michael, I wish you luck with your search. You will eventually see one. Be patient.
Regards,
HJ

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Wendy Lubbers on October 30, 2009 at 1:04 pm said:

Hi Henry, it’s Wendy from down the block on 61 Horseshoe … (Mark Howard is my significant “other”). Just wanted to let you know that Mark and I are both AVID birdwatchers. We have 6 feeders in the back, and also have built platforms off the deck railing for the ground feeders. I have some GORGEOUS photos. How can I post them???

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- avian101 on October 30, 2009 at 1:47 pm said:
  
  Hi Wendy, I’m so glad to know that you are also interested on birds. We definitely have to talk about it sometime. We have only 2 feeders, but are very busy with all kinds of birds. If you go through that list on my blog I have identified 29 different species so far.
  Send my the pictures via email and I will post them on my blog and you’ll be my guest, would you like that? Write a few words about your hobby and I’ll post a gallery of some of your photos to illustrate it.
  
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