Cooper's hawk
accipiter cooperii latin

Walkers will scan the skies for red-tailed and Cooper's hawks.

From a rocky perch 1,200 feet above the valley floor, participants will look for broad-winged, sharp-shinned and cooper's hawks.

There are also Cooper's hawks and sharp-shinned hawks and two species of kestrels.

A volunteer I spoke with on the phone said we might see red-tail hawks, osprey, bald eagles and Cooper's hawks.

Red-tailed hawks hunt in the open field, while sharp-shinned and Cooper's hawks prey on the smaller birds that inhabit the area.

Two Cooper's hawks circled in the winds above, wings immobile for ten minutes on end (we timed, of course) hunting mice and gophers and squirrels.

Black vultures, Cooper's hawks, merlins, red-shouldered hawks and sharp-shinned hawks have also been seen on the refuge.

On Sunday and again on Sept. 25 bird watchers can see broadwings, red tails, falcons, Cooper's hawks and other breeds on their annual migration.

The airport property itself supports a population of endangered upland sandpipers, a breeding pair of Cooper's hawks and 100 breeding pairs of threatened grasshopper sparrows.

Free-flying adults have fewer predators but can be taken in some numbers by Cooper's hawks, northern goshawks, red-tailed hawks, great horned owls and barred owls.

Predators of adult red-bellied woodpeckers include birds of prey such as Sharp-shinned hawks and Cooper's hawks, black rat snakes and house cats.

During the fall migration, numerous species of raptors (such as peregrine falcons and Cooper's hawks) and neotropical migrants use the Island as feeding and resting habitat.

In about two hours, 30 sharp-shinned hawks, four Cooper's hawks, one merlin (a type of falcon) and two hawks called northern harriers passed by the North Lookout.

Possible aerial predators include jaegers, blue jays, common ravens, northern saw-whet owls, common grackles, northern goshawks, and sharp-shinned hawks, and Cooper's hawks.

In the skies red-tailed hawks, American kestrels, sharp shinned hawks, cooper's hawks, crows, and turkey vultures fly and also great horned owls and many songbirds.

Other birds of prey include Prairie falcons, American kestrels, Red-tailed hawks, Cooper's hawks, Swainson's hawk, Golden eagles, and Bald eagles.

Numerous raptor species are likely to be found in the area; including prairie falcons, red-tailed hawks, golden eagles, Cooper's hawks, American kestrels, as well as several species of owls.

Destruction of its core would have displaced goshawks, sharp-shinned and Cooper's hawks, which are on the endangered and threatened lists, respectively, according to Dr. Stephen R. Patten, a Nature Conservancy director.

Ornithologists have found that sharp-shinned and Cooper's hawks have staked out bird feeders and are picking off sparrows, chickadees and mourning doves, which winter in the state and are looking for their own handouts.

A falconer who likes to hunt with passage Cooper's hawks (an American Accipiter) just for one season then release them may be content to use a spare bedroom of his/her apartment, if permitted by the state wildlife agency.

Ron Bell, the count coordinator of Lighthouse Point, said that in a typical year ospreys and kestrels start migrating first, followed by the sharpies, Cooper's hawks and harriers, which can be seen in September and October.

October is a month of quantity as well as diversity; a week after my visit Cooper's hawks, sharp-shins, kestrels and others were streaking by at a rate of 150 an hour, riding the brisk currents of west-northwest winds that presage good hawk watching.

The local shortage of water means that relatively few bird species are present; these include roadrunners, large hawks (such as Cooper's hawks and American kestrels), owls, vultures, and ravens, though they are less abundant in the canyon than in the wetter mountain ranges to the east.