Taken today at Palmview, TX
ID-Please
My guest Copper or Red-tailed Hawk
1000 sec, F /8.0, ISO 1000 at 300mm
No idea, but what a great photo. Thanks.
Excellent image, Goldwinger!
I'm thinking Cooper poss juvenile Red tail
It's a Cooper's Hawk. If you could see it's tail you would know right away !
GoldwingerTX wrote:
Taken today at Palmview, TX
ID-Please
My guess is a Copper or Red-tailed Hawk
1000 sec, F /8.0, ISO 1000 at 300mm
My guess is a Cooper or Sharpshinned Hawk.
I hope that you will let me know if I'm wrong.
I took this in my back yard.
Charles
The lightly streaked breast markings seem to indicate a juvenile Broad-Winged Hawk, although the Cooper's and Red-Winged juvenile breast markings make the frontal view determination difficult. One more option I guess. I used the Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Easter North America as my reference.
charles tabb wrote:
My guess is a Cooper or Sharpshinned Hawk.
I hope that you will let me know if I'm wrong.
I took this in my back yard.
Charles
Yeah. Without seeing the back, it is hard to tell. The differences are mainly the tail and the back of the head.
Juvenile Cooper’s hawk.
Why?
Slender axial streaking on breast feathers differentiate from red-tail (axial streaks are broader in red-tail)
Slender tarso-metatarsus and toes differentiate from red-tail’s more stout, stronger foot
Yellow iris differentiates from adultCooper’s (iris of adult is ruby-red)
The size of feathers (especially breast feathers) are PROPORTINATELY smaller than those of a sharp-shinned hawk. The little shap-shinned appears to have proportionately larger breast feathers.
Although Coopers are, as a species, larger than sharpies, a small male Cooper’s and a large female sharpie may be close in size. Sharpies are generally robin/grackle sized, and Coopers are in the range of crow-sized....males consistently smaller than females. And... a large female Coopers can be close to the size of a small male goshawk, and in juvenile plumage can be confused with a juvenile gos.
Both species (sharpie and Coopers) prey on small birds and small mammals, (both are common predators at bird feeding stations) but larger Cooper’s can occasionally take prey as large as cottontail rabbits and pheasants.
The squared-off tail of the sharpie and the rounded end-of-tail of a Cooper’s are commonly used features for differentiating them in flight.
Dave
A more descriptive title might draw a bird expert or two.
We call those “Chicken Hawk”. This is a young one.
Doddy
Loc: Barnard Castle-England
He/she looks very regal..Nice one.
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